It’s Valentine’s Day, so you may or may not welcome the embrace offered by the closeness of bodies at tonight’s sold-out Scala gig. However, knowing that the next time we’ll see them will be at the enormous Brixton Academy, we are hoping for as much intimacy as we can possibly get. The lights dim,...
Hummingbird is a decided and polished move away from the sparser folk-pop of Local Natives’ 2009 debut Gorilla Manor. They always leaned toward indie, but this second album is more assured, more concentrated. Some of the influences and comparisons are obvious — keyboards and vocals suggesting Grizzly Bear, piano lines and heavy bridges that...
Dear readers, As you know, I am not generally the sort of owl to indulge in frivolities of a plebeian level. Television broadcasts such as The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent only serve, in my opinion, to prove Britain’s mass delusion as to their “talent”. I must admit, however, that I cannot help...
This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year. While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying to whittle down the huge pile of wonderful albums released this year to our...
Joni Mitchell – California It’s Joni Michell week here at FFS so it’s only right to start with a Joni video. This BBC session performance of California was recommended to us by Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society (he of twice-nominated-for-the-Ivors fame. Ceremony’s tonight. Cross your fingers hold your toes). Joni’s voice here is...
Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let us know if you can think of any tweeting folk musicians in the comments below. Akron/Family Angus and Julia Stone...
Local Natives have got a great community of artists around them in LA. So when we interviewed them, we asked them to suggest bands we should check out. So, we present to you Voxhaul Broadcast, Rumspringa, Fool's Gold, Foreign Born, Pepper Rabbit, The Growlers and The Union Line.
FFS’s favourite three-piece Peggy Sue have revealed the album artwork and tracklisting for their brilliant debut album Fossils and Other Phantoms, which will be released on 5th April 2010. Peggy Sue’s Katy Young said: “Fossils was recorded over a year in Brooklyn, Brighton and London. It is made up of entirely unreleased material because...
Local Natives are playing a sold out show at Hoxton Bar and Grill tonight. Then they'll be jetting off around Europe before returning to the UK for a tour in February. FFS chatted to the LA 5-piece about their incredible debut Gorilla Manor last time they were in the UK, and what utter gents...
SXSW winners (i.e. the ones people went on about the most) Local Natives are heading to London this month for three dates.
#77 Dodos - Confidence May 19th, 2013
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