It’s time to elevate Ellen and the Escapades to the status of ‘FFS favourites’. The Leeds band, who soared into FFS’s consciousness by winning the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition in 2010, are on tour with a debut album, All The…
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Record Store Day | Taking The Pledge: Why Independent Record Shops Are Best
More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly…
Record Store Day | FFS writers on their favourite shops
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity…
Album | M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
M Ward’s A Wasteland Companion is a graceful, forward thinking work, a natural next step from his previous solo work. It is still his brand of relating his wide musical influence through his unique stylistic filter and he is still…
Album | Lightships – Electric Cables
I spoke recently of my love for indie-pop, well it seems as though Gerard Love was listening because he’s bestowed another gem of guitar-driven pop upon the world. Lightships’ maiden offering, Electric Cables, is a beautiful surprise, one that sneaks…
Album | Moonface – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Recovery
Spencer Krug’s second album as Moonface comes in the form of the ambitious Heartbreaking Recovery. Enlisting Finnish band Siinai to help, this is a collection of synth-based tales of heartache and unrequited love which promises to leave the listener deeply…
Interview | Seth Lakeman – Folk’s Reluctant ‘Poster-Boy’ Goes It Alone
FOR YEARS musicians have claimed in pre-album release interviews to be ‘going back to their roots’, re-discovering their heritage and casting off the shackles of show-business, insisting it’s ‘all about the music.’ More often than not this is simply PR…
Album | Maps & Atlases – Beware & Be Grateful
Like a heavily sugared iced chai latte – a bit too weird and way too rich for some people’s tastes – Maps & Atlases are just my cup of tea. If you want to quickly fit Maps & Atlases into…
Album | Gemma Ray – Island Fire
Gemma Ray returns with another delightful pop gem in Island Fire. Released at a time when many other artists are bringing out melancholy records, it is refreshing to hear such a bright and breezy effort from the London-based songstress. The…
Album | Rusty Bear – Source To Sea
There is nothing like a great new record to herald the start of spring. The chill of winter is fading away, the sun is starting to poke its head through the clouds and music somehow starts to sounds better. Rusty…