Author: Ian Parker

Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.

Album premiere | Tanbark – Tanbark

Laurel Canyon revivalists rejoice, for Tanbark are back with their second album. The duo, formed of Chloe Nelson and James Jannicelli, follow up 2014’s Write Soon with a self-titled sophomore released this week. It may be five years since their…

Interview | The Leisure Society find a new direction

It’s a big, strange house (a convent, in fact), the kind you might hear ghost stories about. And it’s a long way from home, in Richelieu, France, where the Leisure Society have gone to record, to get away from it…

Album | Oliver Cherer – I Feel Nothing Most Days

Some things just can’t be rushed. Oliver Cherer – the prolific artist behind Gilroy Mere, Dollboy, The Assistant, Australian Testing Labs and more – began writing these songs on a Yamaha 4 cassette recorder back in 1983. Influenced by early…

Video premiere | Owen-Glass – Here It Comes

“We’re just wasting our time chasing all that glitters and shines” Owen-Glass sing on ‘Here It Comes’ – the latest release off their upcoming debut album The Rope & The Rabbit. The song seeks to tackle the way in which…

Premiere | Ordinary Elephant – Jenny & James

If you’re looking for one word to sum up the music of Ordinary Elephant, the title of their new album will do you. Honest. Honest in its tradition, honest in its sentiment, honest in its sound. ‘Jenny & James’ fits…

Interview | Tiny Ruins take flight

“You only had your Olympic girls/The frosted sheen of leotard twirls/Running revolt and winning gold/For the TV screen/Before being led back to the cells.” So sings Hollie Fullbrook on the title track of her third album under the name Tiny…

Video premiere | Firefly Burning – Call To Me

Firefly Burning will return with their third studio album Breathe Shallow on May 31, and you’re going to want to circle the date. Working with famed producer Tim Friese-Greene, best known for his work with Talk Talk, the London collective…

Premiere | Golden Fable – Hold True

We’ve not heard from Golden Fable since 2017’s In The Aerie, but it turns out they’ve been away working on something special. A new record is on the way on 2019, and early signs point to something epic. What are…

Premiere | Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Hidden Things

After excelling themselves with 2018’s Awake, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are returning with a trilogy of singles written on the road and inspired by their relationship to the spirit of place. Here we bring you the premiere of the…

Video premiere | Mara Simpson – Keep You In Light

Darkness and light is a theme on Mara Simpson’s excellent new album 285 Days, and the themes are to the fore on the shimmering ‘Keep You In Light’. As she heads out on tour in Germany this week, Mara has…