Strictly speaking, we’ve already introduced Hoshal Patrick, the delightfully dreamy duo with the air of a very chilled-out Smiths about them – check out the very favourable reviews from our New Bands Panel. Find out a bit more about the boys here, including their plans for a dubfolk revolution and what they’d do with a...
As Suede become the latest Britpop band to hit the road on the reunion trail – sporting, it should be said, a creditable comeback album – it is slowly dawning on those of us who were there to enjoy the movement first hand that it all began almost 20 years ago. Since then, a...
With 2011 album, Viscera, Jenny Hval achieved a surprising hit, garnering generally favourable – if slightly perplexed – reviews, and a spot in Uncut’s ‘Top 50 Albums Of 2011’. ‘Surprising’(particularly for boys club, Uncut) because Viscera was an experimental, part-spoken word, avant-garde-inspired record exploring female sexuality and bodies in the city. Of its many...
For Civil Wars fans, there’s good news and bad news. Six months after the band called an unceremonious halt to their European tour to take a break amid “internal discord“, Joy Williams and John Paul White have announced a self-titled second album is on its way this summer. No release date has yet been...
THE MAC ARE BACK! FFS are super excited about the return of Fleetwood Mac. Up til recently we thought our only interaction with the band would be singing along to Sara at the top of our lungs and defending them to any haters (or ‘idiots’, as we call them). But no! Now we get...
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track, which begins: “We may think we’ve not met before but we’ve danced out our...
Tom McRae’s fifth album, The Alphabet Of Hurricanes, received a decidedly lukewarm critical response upon its release in 2010, making the decision to release a follow-up billed as a second part of the project, and containing a song of that name, a surprising one. He has earned the right by now to do things...
Cannibal King isn’t the kind of EP title you get on this website all that often… it might even be the first time that a title about eating human flesh has ever appeared on FFS (Not quite! See here). Anyway, when Yesper, in his own words ”a box with strings, one pair of hands, a mouth and...
The Magic Numbers are heading out on their first ever acoustic tour later this year as they prepare for the release of their fourth album. The four-piece are avoiding many of the usual live music hot spots and are instead hitting smaller towns, playing a selection of theatres, churches and alternative venues. The band...
William Tyler will be familiar to fans of Lambchop and Silver Jews, having toured with both of those bands as a guitarist. He’s also a well-respected solo artist in his own right, creating soothing instrumental music with his guitars. His debut, Behold The Spirit, was released on the humble Tompkins Square label in 2010,...
Seminal 90s indie stars Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a series of reunion shows for the end of the year. The Athens, Georgia quartet, whose classic 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was fourth in Pitchfork’s top 100 albums of the 1990s, will play three American shows in October and dates in...
London’s Foundling Museum is full of intriguing artefacts. “Some of these things you’d think only existed in folk songs. But here they are in real, palpable things,” we are told before the first of the museum’s new, monthly folk nights. What a place, then, to meet Alasdair Roberts, the Scottish singer whose most recent...
“I think we must be the most English band of all time,” says the Leisure Society’s Christian Hardy as he politely suggests some audience participation towards the end of their set at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Profusely thanking everybody for coming, explaining how the next song is about a night out in Burton on Trent...
There’s a great moment in the tenth episode of 30 Rock in which someone asks Alec Baldwin’s character if he likes Phil Collins. Baldwin’s response is a droll and perfectly timed “I have two ears and a heart, don’t I?” Though the debate over Phil Collins is better waged another time, somewhere far, far...
Laura Marling has composed the music for a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, which opened on Wednesday in Stratford-upon-Avon.
There are certain clichés that go hand in hand in the contemporary folk revival. Press shots taken on fallen trees. Bunting. Oh, Christ, so much bloody bunting. And, of course, birds. Hell, FFS understands the bird element so much we’ve enlisted our own resident playlist master from the winged world. Julie Hawk indulges in...
“Dog is dead!”, a dyslexic’s version of Neitzche’s famous phrase, was the cry of the night at KOKO on an almost summery evening in north London. The floor was heaving and the three layers of balconies and theatre boxes were overflowing with people waiting to see this up-and-coming fivesome. Riled by the excellent...
#108 Nick Drake - Northern Sky Jun 19th, 2013
#107 Lowland Hum - War is Over Jun 18th, 2013
#106 Nick Mulvey - Fever To The Form Jun 17th, 2013
