After 2010’s triumphant folk opera Hadestown, it was hard to see where Anais Mitchell had left to go. And with Young Man In America, she’s taken it down a notch: quieter and more introspective, it’s Young Man‘s characters that make…
Category: Interviews
Interview | Travelling, dance moves and Liz Frazer at breakfast – FFS talks to Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains
This past year has been a great one for you – it’s pretty exciting to be the first French Domino signing! Are you happy with where the band is at the moment? Very much indeed! We didn’t have any specific…
Interview | Sofia Talvik – Sweden’s best kept secret
It’s always impressive when artists are able to survive in the music industry without the aid of major label backing or pandering to the mainstream. On the flip side, this might also explain why Sofia Talvik, Swedish alt-folkstress and founder…
Interview | Stealing time with Stealing Sheep
Stealing Sheep’s inventive psych-folk has been running happily amok through the music world this year (they managed to play festivals on the Isle of Wight, in Norway and Wales in the week before speaking to us). Their keyboardist, Becky, gathered…
Interview | Introducing… LAISH
Having supported almost everyone you could possibly think of, from Peggy Sue and Grizzly Bear, to Beach House and Sons of Noel and Adrian, this band hardly need introducing. Nonetheless, should you have yet to hear this, I feel…
Interview | Starstruck – FFS chats to Stevie Jackson
Stevie Jackson has had an illustrious career. Not content with an enormously successful 16 years with genre-defining band Belle and Sebastian, he’s played with the Bill Wells Trio, The Store Keys and regularly lends his guitar skills to iconic…
Interview | Introducing…Alexander Wolfe
Sometimes you just need to be moody, introspective – sad, even. This is where Alexander Wolfe comes in, purveyor of what has been described as ‘doom-folk’. We’re not sure ‘doom’ quite covers it – first album, Morning Brings A Flood…
Interview | Introducing…Toliesel
There are gorgeous vocals, melodies and shoe-gazing aplenty to be found in ‘The Light’, the new single from Oxford indie-folk band, Toliesel. Having fallen in love with the mournful yet not miserable guitar riff on this beautiful slice of melancholia,…
Interview | Introducing Foreign Fields
We are Foreign Fields. A duo from Wisconsin who decided to represent a year of their lives in the form of an album. We tend to blend the musical genres that inspire us most, folk, classical, and electronic. We now play out as a group of 5 guys trying to achieve the most emotionally true performance that we can.
Interview | FFS finds Get Well Soon’s Konstantin Gropper in excellent health…
To coincide with the release of their third album The Scarlet Beast O’ Seven Heads earlier this month, the mastermind behind Get Well Soon, Konstantin Gropper, kindly took the time to talk to For Folk’s Sake about the new record’s…