People who go to End of the Road festival are just better than other people. They’re kinder, they’re cleverer, and they have unendingly beautiful souls. Apart from the guy standing next to us at tUnE yArDs on Sunday afternoon who…
Merrill Garbus, without having even released her latest album, ‘Nikki Nack’, set a storm upon her fans after announcing a one-night-only appearance at London’s Village Underground. Predictably, it sold out in minutes, and those with tickets were undoubtedly in for…
For those of us who aren’t at Green Man this weekend, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Maybe listen to it in the bath to really bite your thumb…
Perpetual messers-with word cases tUnE yArDs keep their incessant meddling up with this, their second studio album. The powerhouse driving the tUnE yArDs project, Merrill Garbus, has succeeded in giving us an innovative, playful, and staggeringly adept follow-up to the…
End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a…
Author of one of our favourite albums ever, Merrill Garbus’s tUnE-yArDs’s second album w ho k i l l is set to be released on 18th April. And in response to a bit of old-fashioned pirating Merrill said this: “The…
Brian’s been a bit quiet of late, largely because when he gets really excited his wings start quivering and he can’t type. What happened was, he realised it was June and that it was about to be Glastonbury, and his…
Merill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs, opened her set with a primal, African influenced sound blasting out of her mouth and seemingly, going on forever. Was that her real voice? No laptops, no effects, no nothing? As she loops her own voice…
There’s a lovely moment at the start of BiRd-BrAiNs when Merrill Garbus and a child, possibly her son, discuss the merits of blueberries. They’re “fresh”, they conclude. So is this album, given a deserved UK release by the rejuvenated 4AD…