The Leisure Society's songwriter Nick Hemming on his inspiration, the 'lost decade' and album number four.
The Leisure Society's songwriter Nick Hemming on his inspiration, the 'lost decade' and album number four.
What better way to get people excited about your new album than by letting them hear four perfectly-crafted folk-pop songs from it? That’s exactly what Heidi Talbot has done for her new release Angels Without Wings and you can hear them here. Heidi is by no means a newcomer – in fact she’s an...
This week three of our writers have eyed up London-based two-piece Light Falls Forward, who met at a house party and immediately bonded over Derren Brown and biscuits. They moved in with each other, decided to write music together and Songs and Shadows is the result. Here’s what FFS thinks…. Natalie Tompkins: For a single...
Lilliput may already be well known to those of you that hail from the musically-fertile ground of the North East, but, like Newkie Brown, a parmo or Newcastle FC’s transfer policy, the band is now starting to pick up admirers from further afield. The New Bands Panel sees the alt folk five piece judged...
Maz Totterdell is like a ray of sunshine in your record collection. Rather than choosing the route of teenage angst, this precocious 15 year old reminds us that it wasn’t ALL rubbish being young, and her gentle reflections on the bumpy road of early love eschew bitterness in favour of thoughtful acceptance. With debut single, ‘Counting...
With recent EP Descartes Highlands, Paul Thomas Saunders has revealed a gift for transmuting melancholia into a kind of subdued euphoria. Named after an area on the nearside of the moon, the EP is a collection of sonic lunarscapes to transport you to another state. FFS get the low down on this starry-eyed shoe...
Eliza Shaddad is a Scottish and Sudanese singer-songwriter with influences that range from childhood days spent at English folk festivals, the underground hip-hop scene during her teens and to more recent postgraduate jazz studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Listen to her EP January-March (along with new song ‘HomeLectric’) above and see...
Named after a National song? Only been together a year and already supported Elbow? Seems like Manchester band The Slow Show have got it all worked out already, doesn’t it? But before they hit the big time, the FFS New Bands Panel needs to give their upcoming EP, Brother, a quick once over to...
The Irn-Bru drinkers amongst you may be familiar with this lot- it’s lo-fi Glasgow based 8-piece Randolph’s Leap. A tartan background adorns their bandcamp. They have a song called ‘Cassie O’Tone’. Playing devil’s advocate here, I’m going to say they sound like a cross between Neutral Milk Hotel and Belle & Sebastian, so will be irresistible to...
This is the section of FFS dedicated to new music, where the New Bands Panel judge the merits of an up and coming band. See it as a kind of parent’s evening for emerging talent. Hopefully, just like a stranger is a friend you haven’t met, the music you’ll find here will be by...
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#106 Nick Mulvey - Fever To The Form Jun 17th, 2013
