We’re delighted to announce that the wonderful Cocos Lovers are your choice for our Schmercury Best Album Poll. The Lovers’ debut LP Johannes was shortlisted alongside 11 other albums from the past year, and thanks to a groundswell of internet support, pipped Laura Marling’s I Speak Because I Can to top position. Our Editor’s...
It’s the last day of voting for our Mercury spoof the Schmercury poll… Don’t miss the chance to vote for your favourite.
Cocos Lovers are nominated for our best album poll for their magnificent debut Johannes. Will Greenham from the band answered our questions. FFS: Congratulations, you’ve been nominated for a Schmercury. How do you feel? Will Greenham: We were surprised and very happy. There are some great bands listed and it’s good to feel that...
Congratulations, you’ve been nominated for a Schmercury. How do you feel? Elated! It’s my first ever award nomination! What did you think of the Mercury nominations this year? As ever with the Mercurys there’s a good spread. It’s the only awards list I follow really, it’s always interesting to see who gets the nod. ...
Field Music's incredibly varied album Measure is, in FFS's humble opinion, the best of their career. So we nominated it for our annual best album prize, the Schmercuries. (There's still time to vote for your favourite album below.) David Brewis from the band took some time out to answer our questions...
We first came across Sea of Bees when our writer Alice Knapp saw her supporting Breath Owl Breathe in the US earlier this year. Loving what we heard on her myspace we couldn’t wait to hear her album Songs for the Ravens. And when we did it blew us away. It’s delicate but powerful,...
Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown absolutely blew us away when it was released this year. It’s a folk opera based on the story of Eurydice and Orpheus feauring performances by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver as Orpheus, Greg Brown as Hades, Ani DiFranco as Persephone and the Haden Triplets. What’s more I feel pretty confident in...
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...
Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that we had to have a sit down with some tea and Belle & Sebastian...
#106 Nick Mulvey - Fever To The Form Jun 17th, 2013
#105 The Graphite Set - In Your Eyes Jun 16th, 2013
#104 Take Berlin - Lionize Jun 15th, 2013
