‘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…
The Deportees have been working on their debut album for three years, and now there’s only three weeks left until it arrives. The Aberdeen five-piece will release The Birth of Industry on November 3, with the album billed as an…
“It’s difficult for me to get across to you all how joyous this is for all of us.” Matthew E. White, bedecked in a dark suit and with his flowing locks constrained in a bun, almost shyly leans into the…
When Matthew E. White and his cohorts founded Spacebomb Records six years ago they had a vision but no roadmap – or at least not an up-to-date one. The concept was old-fashioned – a studio and record label that came…
As we’ve basked in these balmy days of summer weather, there’s been an undeniable itch to break out of the office and go for a frolic in the countryside. It seems Martha Tilston also had that itch as that’s exactly…
Sam Airey’s debut album In Darkened Rooms has been a long time in the making – time in which his influences have expanded from the folk music he was raised on to include shoegaze, post-rock and Americana. To give us…
You only have to look at the sleeve of Ron Sexsmith’s 13th studio album to see that something has changed. “I knew for this record the cover couldn’t just be another picture of me stood up against the wall,” Sexsmith…
You might know we’re pretty fond of Joe Innes and his Cavalcade here at FFS. What we’re chuffed about, if not remotely surprised, is how fond everyone else is becoming. As he prepares to his release his new album Foreign…
Alexander Wolfe is getting ready to release his fourth album later this year, and if the first single is anything to go by, this should be his breakthrough. Wolfe’s music has always come with plenty of real emotion, but ‘I…