Laura Marling HQ released yet another video from a song on her third album “A Creature I Don’t Know”, titled “All My Rage”. This quirky clip contains hundreds of dolls in an old house which all come alive by the end of the track, where Laura and the band also play. Whether we should...
One of our favourite singer-songwriters Dory Previn has died at home on her farm aged 86. Dory was a lyricist in the 60s working with her then husband composer André Previn on music for films. In the 70s she began to release solo albums. She made atmospheric and immediate music with autobiographical lyrics that...
Following the success of his debut EP: “The Baron”, Jamie N Commons has announced the release of the official new video for his single “Devil in Me’. The single is set for release on the 26th March via Luv Luv Luv Records, and depicts a tale of being haunted by bad memories and regret. Jamie...
Michael Kiwanuka has taken time out from his sold-out UK tour to announce…another UK tour. The London singer-songwriter hit the road last week as he gets ready for the release of his debut album Home Again next month. But he will be heading back out again in May for eight more shows, taking in...
Admiral Fallow have been getting very busy in the past few weeks, unveiling a new single, plans for a mammoth UK tour, and they have now announced details of their second album. Tree Bursts In Snow will be released on May 21 through Nettwerk. The album was recorded in Glasgow, produced by Paul Savage...
Yellow Bird Project is a blimmin’ brilliant concept. They team up with great bands to make beautifully designed t-shirts, then sell them to raise money for the charity of the artist’s choice. YBP have collaborated with so many bands we love: The Shins, Beach House, Bon Iver, Laura Veirs, Rilo Kiley and tons more....
FFS favourite Darren Hayman has released The Shit Piano a re-recording of his recent album The Ship's Piano - which our Tom Moyser called "slow, delicate, piano-led, romantic, nostalgic and whimsical. And, above all else, brilliant." - in just one day and using only Casio keyboards. Darren said: "I tried to use the limitation of...
We’re huge fans of streaming website, Daytrotter at FFS, they make recordings that quite often sound better than the bands’ albums. Very excitingly, they’ve teamed up with Communion Records (started by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons and Kev Jones) who are recording bands for them in London. Past Daytrotter guests include Laura Marling,...
Richard Hawley will release his first studio album in three years this coming May in the form of Standing At The Sky’s Edge, and he’s promising a major change in direction. Where 2009′s Truelove’s Gutter was sparse and nakedly beautiful, the new album claims to be “a euphoric, sonic assault on the senses, channelling...
Fans of FFS’s long-running New Bands Panel (which is getting an overhaul very soon – stay tuned) should remember Andrew Butler, who got a going over from our panel way back in September 2010. What we found then was a chap who wrote, as our own Helen True put it, “exquisite, intricate, romantic songs...
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