Author: Ian Parker

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

Record Store Day | The FFS Shopping Guide 2013 (part 1)

It’s almost that time again. Record Store Day 2013 is tomorrow, 20th April. So whether you’re planning to line up outside your local record shop from the crack of dawn, or just saunter down mid-afternoon to see what you can…

#46 Gavin James – Carolina

I’ve never been to Dublin or any of its pubs, but have long been told it’s worth the trip. Principally, I had understood this was to indulge my taste for a pint of the black stuff, but if this is…

#43 Anne-Marie Sanderson – Follow You

However you go about getting there, it’s a long way from London to Portland, Oregon. But it’s even further if you go via busking stints in France and what we’re told was a time spent yodelling in the Swiss Alps.…

#42 Terry Emm – Loved And Never Lost

File Terry Emm on the list of the criminally underrated. The Bedfordshire songwriter has put out two fine, fine albums of a gentle folk music which has strong echoes of the English greats, and despite a wealth of critical acclaim,…

Album | Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw

Trying to get a handle on Hiss Golden Messenger’s fourth album isn’t easy. Named for a river – which gave its name to a now lost Indian tribe – in North Carolina, Haw meanders through an array of different styles.…

#40 Brazos – How The Ranks Was Won

A lot has happened to Martin McNulty Crane since he self-released his first album, Phosperescent Blues, back in 2009. He’s toured with the likes of Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, The National and Iron & Wine, left Austin for Brooklyn,…

#39 Asgeir Trausti – Dýrð í dauðaþögn

Asgeir Trausti is just 20 years of age, but in his home country of Iceland he’s already a pretty big deal. Indeed, as the fastest-selling Icelandic debut artist of all time, a winner of the Kraumur Award and a nominee…

#36 Flutes – Kilburn

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, and yet we do it anyway. If you were coming into this blind, you might imagine a band named Flutes, singing a song named ‘Kilburn’, might be a group…

#35 The Green Apple Sea – Please Slow Down

The Green Apple Sea – Please Slow Down from medienjargon on Vimeo. Albums from Nurnberg’s The Green Apple Sea never arrive in a hurry – 10 years separated 2000’s debut All Over The Place and LP number three, 2010’s Northern…

#34 The Deep Red Sky – Zombies (Things Don’t Stay The Same)

Zombies (Things Don't Stay The Same) by The Deep Red Sky Drinking whatever is in the same Scottish waters that produced the likes of Frightened Rabbit, the Twilight Sad and Admiral Fallow comes five-piece the Deep Red Sky. Their debut…