Jazz-folk duo Snowpoet will return with their second album Thought You Knew next week. We’re delighted to bring you the premiere of the second single ‘Love Again’ – a seven-minute earworm of gently fluctuating rhythms. Lauren Kinsella (the Jazz FM…
Dante will return with their second album, I Wear Your Weight With Mine, on March 9th. Sean McLaughlin’s emotive songwriting has been paired with the production touch of Frightened Rabbit’s Andy Monaghan, producing results which sound like The National delivered…
The evolution of Laurie Hulme’s Songs for Walter project from touching songs inspired by his grandfather to a rich and growing soundscape continues with ‘Squaring Circles’ – his seventh free single and the follow-up to April’s Earwigging. Here Laurie contrasts…
Every day’s a crossroads, which means every day there’s a different turn we could have taken. And you can, if you want, spend a lifetime worrying about what was around this corner or that. Sorry, we’re not trying to frighten…
Long-time FFS readers will no doubt remember Gibson Bull (AKA Tom), who wowed us all with his outstanding songwriting and Americana stylings some time ago. Well, we have good news and good news. The good news is that he’s back,…
Combining elements of Americana, psychedelia and an unmistakable tinge of Manchester grit, Douga go to great lengths to get their sound just right. Which is why you might have found them crouched in a stairwell or packing themselves into a…
Dan Michaelson, this time minus the Coastguards, returns with his new solo album First Light on December 8. We heard the first single ‘Old Kisses’ last month, and now bring you the premiere of the lush opening track ‘Careless’. With…
After he piled up critical acclaim for his debut album Blood Moon last year, it was suggested to M. Craft that he put out an instrumental version of Blood Moon to highlight the beauty of the piano-led arrangements. But that…
‘Wintersun’ is, Paul Mosley says, ‘an exercise in smart-arse time signatures’. That may well be true, but you don’t need to know that to appreciate this moving tale of unrequited love. With rich harmonies and sweeping saxophone, the third track…
This week the Barr Brothers’ new record Queens of the Breakers hits the shelves – the long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s Sleeping Operator. Plenty has happened to the band in the intervening three years, leading them to take a whole new…