Guess what folk fans?! We’ll be releasing another album of Christmas music this year. All profits will be donated to the Evelina Children’s Hospital in Central London. News of the artists involved is to come, but for now we can show you the marvellous front cover, designed by friend of FFS Sarah Oxley. The...
Our charity compilation, For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, featuring original tracks from loads of our favourite artists was released a couple of weeks ago. The physical copies are close to selling out so we wanted to show you, our lovely readers, just how nice they are so you don’t miss your chance… The...
It is with much excitement that we today learn FFS favourites Cocos Lovers will give a full release to their second album Elephant Lands on March 19th, 2012. The record is the follow-up to 2009 debut Johannes, which earned glowing praise from us and then topping our 2010 Schmercury poll, so this new record...
Josh T. Pearson’s Last of the Country Gentlemen was released this year to widespread acclaim, with this very website describing it as a ‘sparse, delicate and unrelenting trawl through the darker recesses of the soul’. It has found itself in the upper echelons of, if not at the top of, pretty much every ‘Best...
The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But the best Christmas records to my mind are the ones that, although the seasonal...
At a time when every Tom, Dick and Harry are releasing a Christmas album (Tom, Dick and Harry probably being Michael Bublé, The Smurfs and Cliff Richard), it’s great to see the folk community getting in on the action this year. So when it was announced that acclaimed singer-songwriter, Vanessa Peters was releasing an...
In a year with more full-length festive offerings than any in recent memory, there has still been something essentially ‘Christmassy’ missing. She & Him provided the Midnight Mass feeling – respectful, stately, something you can be sure your Gran will appreciate while enjoying the pageantry of it yourself; Michael Buble’s set of holiday standards...
Please forgive us for adding to the bit-too-early Christmas chat, but we’re SO excited to announce the release of our second Christmas compilation For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, which is out on 28th November 2011 and available to pre-order now at forfolkssake.bandcamp.com. Some of our very favourite artists have donated songs to the record,...
We are terribly excited to reveal that For Folk’s Sake will be releasing a second charity Christmas compilation on 28th November. It follows last year’s album, For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas (Vol 1) which featured songs from Laura Hocking, Emily & the Woods and Dan Michaelson. We will be unveiling the artists involved next...
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