Author: Ian Parker

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

#83 Keston Cobblers’ Club – Beam

We pretty much love Keston Cobblers’ Club. Their music is utterly infectious. If you don’t actually get up and dance, you’ll at least be tapping away. Stop reading this and just press play.

#81 Beck Lanehart – Last Man Down

If anybody’s been watching Nashville (which is mainly worth sticking with for the music – or at least most of the music) then Beck Lanehart’s ‘Last Man Down’ is exactly the kind of thing you might expect one of the…

Album | She & Him – Volume 3

We’re guessing it wasn’t a long meeting between M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel before they settled on the title Volume 3 for this, their, uhm, third collection of 60s-tinged pop. But it wasn’t just the title that was inevitable about…

#79 Ane Brun – This Voice 2013

Ane Brun will next week release her career retrospective Songs 2003-2013 and is marking the occasion with a re-recording of ‘This Voice’, which originally appeared on her 2005 record A Temporary Dive. The once gentle song has been reimagined as…

Stream | Georgia Ruth’s debut album Week of Pines

Welsh harpist Georgia Ruth this week releases her highly-anticipated debut album Week of Pines and we’re delighted to be able to offer a full stream of the record right here. The Aberystwyth artist has developed a distinctive picking style which…

EP | Patch & The Giant – The Boatswain’s Refuge

If you’re already familiar with Patch & The Giant you’ll have been expecting their debut EP to be named after a boat or a boatman. And so it is. Drawn from all four corners of our little Island – and…

Album | The Baptist Generals – Jackleg Devotional To The Heart

The Baptist Generals’ sophomore album begins like a schizophrenic soundtrack to an Atari computer game, beeping and buzzing as a guitar tries to make up its mind which key to play in. ‘Machine En Prolepis’ does settle down after a…

#78 Natalie Evans – Library Days

Kent songwriter Natalie Evans has just released her second EP Houses, which shows off a style so dreamy that she manages to make a day spent at the library seem like a spiritual pastime. The six-track EP focuses lyrically on…

News | Howie Payne to headline Leeds event

Howie Payne, former front man of The Stands, will unveil his latest solo work as he begins a short UK tour by appearing in Leeds as part of a show put on by Ellen Smith of FFS favourites Ellen &…

Album | John Murry – The Graceless Age

John Murry, previously a collaborator with Bob Frank on their album of murder ballads World Without End, spent four years recording his remarkable solo debut album The Graceless Age, but it was a lifetime in the making. The musical telling…