When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than pondering our favourite records. When you’re in your front room with a glass of...
Transcendental Youth is an album about being young and reckless, about Frankie Lymon, about the Diaz Brothers, about running and jumping and leaving everything behind. An album about the fleetingness of youth that could, perhaps ironically, only have been written with the age and maturity of a musician like John Darnielle. The album starts...
Exciting thing! FFS is failing to contain itself because THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are giving away a free single from their new album Transcendental Youth. It’s called ‘Cry For Judas’ and features SpaceBomb Records horns arranged by Matthew E. White. Listen and download it here: John Darnielle said,”Like a lot of the new album, Cry...
I once watched a programme about the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Actually, it was either a programme about Thriller or American Werewolf in London, though it doesn’t matter. Apparently, immediately after seeing American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson picked up his phone and called his management with the request that he wanted become...
A wee while ago we told you about a very special London show the Mountain Goats are playing on 2 April. Now the kind folks at the Barbican have offered us a pair of tickets to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, just email mountaingoats forfolkssake com with...
The Mountain Goats have announced a special show at the Barbican in London next year. Frontman and genius John Darnielle will be joined by vocal quartet Anonymous 4, playing songs from his new work Transcendental Youth. The songs will be arranged for voices, piano and guitar by Owen blimmin Pallet, to top it all off....
Two kinds of people in this world: those who would gladly take a bullet for Diana Ross, and unfeeling cyborgs who feast on the innocent... Look, I don't know about you, but I'm going to mailorder me some fresh death metal... So many films fall short because their screenwriters forget to include an evil cult leader...
The Mountains Goats are nearly always my favourite band. And John Darnielle is my favourite ever songwriter bar none. He’s an intensely likable, principled, genius of a frontman. Yet the last few albums – though solidly good – haven’t blown me away. Nothing has come close to knocking 2005′s The Sunset Tree off the...
Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson. Listen here. >> Mumford & Sons website | Jesse Quin’s band Mt. Desolation ....
1.The Tallest Man on Earth‘s 2010 album The Wild Hunt has hardly been off the FFS stereo in the past couple of months. Kristian Matsson is Swedish and of average height with a gift for proper songwriting. There’s no flourishes here, just great tunes, smart lyrics and some lovely intricate fretwork. The Wild Hunt...
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