In 2008, Adelir Antonio de Carli, a Brazilian priest, launched himself off a cliff with 1,000 helium balloons and was never seen again. His story led Hollie Fullbrook to write the song ‘Priest With Balloons’, a lyric from which gives…
Author: For Folk's Sake
Album | My Sad Captains – Fight Less Win More
Stolen Recordings One suspects that Ed Wallis could feel lonely in a crowded room. While some musicians decamp, Bon Iver-style, to isolated woodland cabins to key into the creativity that isolation brings, Wallis decided to hole up in a borrowed…
EP | The Staves – Mexico
There’s something very woolly jumper about the Staves, as might be expected from graduates of the Liverpool School of Performing Arts. Your enjoyment of the sweet-toothed folk tunes that make up the Mexico EP will depend entirely on your tolerance for…
Live | Summer Camp @ Liverpool Mojo 10th November 2011
FFS wrote precisely one memo-to-self during this show: “Jeremy Warmsley is wearing the best shirt ever”. The review should actually end there: Mr. Summer Camp’s clothing selection alone should be enough to convince you to go see them play live.…
Live | The Antlers @ Koko, 10th November 2011
“We want to thank you guys for being here,” says Peter Silberman as he surveys the enraptured Koko crowd. “We have no idea how we got here, and we don’t know how to get back.” A chilly Thursday night in…
EP | Stealing Sheep – Noah And The Paper Moon
With their long drapes of hair and songs dotted with twangling loopy bits and swooping girl-trio harmonies, Stealing Sheep are a bit of a throwback to hippydom, but they have more than retro appeal going for them. Noah and the…
Interview | Ane Brun
Ane Brun’s fourth studio album It All Starts With One was released earlier this month to widespread acclaim and praise; a gloriously emotive and compelling affair that ensures her talents as a musician will be further known upon these shores.…
Album | Cass McCombs – Humor Risk
Humor Risk, the second Cass McCombs album to be released this year, juxtaposes itself against April’s Wit’s End; where the first was harrowing and gloomy, this is, at times, surprisingly buoyant and hopeful. And as the album’s title suggests, Cass…
EP | Olof Arnalds – Olof Sings
With Bjork’s latest album bristling with the kind of sonic innovation that makes Radiohead look as challenging a prospect as a tug-of-war against the local Women’s Institute and Sigur Ros putting out a new live record that captures them at…
Live | Ane Brun @ Manchester Deaf Institute, 8th November 2011
It’s a rainy Tuesday night in Manchester, and Oxford Road is quieter than usual. Perhaps this is because everyone is in the Deaf Institute, falling a little bit in love with Ane Brun. Weaving through the captivated crowd en route…