The most surprising fact about Farewell Jr’s debut Health EP is that it was recorded in part in Cambridge, Ireland and Australia. Surprising not for the fact that what began as Nick Rayner’s Cambridge-based solo project has so rapidly grown,…
Author: Ian Parker
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EP | The Golden Troubadours – Beautiful Revolving Jane
You could spend a long time listening to the Golden Troubadours trying to figure out where they come from. In the space of this short EP, their second, they seem to go around the world with a mix of latin…
EP | I Said Yes – I Said Yes
Noel Gallagher can be a grumpy old git. Apparently, among the many things he has taken against – including Liam Gallagher, Christmas, and, perhaps justifiably, bands that say yes to charity gigs and then pull out – the music of…
Album | Clara Luzia – We Are Fish
If the name Clara Luzia doesn’t immediately mean much to you, you’re probably not alone on these shores. But in her native Austria, she’s something of a fixture as she returns with this, her fifth album. In 2008, after two…
#16 Sparrow & The Workshop – Shock Shock
Yesterday’s song of the day showcased Just Handshakes’ progression from folksy openings to an altogether heavier beast, and its a path that has already been taken by Sparrow & The Workshop. Their latest single ‘Shock Shock’ comes on soundcloud with…
#15 Just Handshakes – London Bound
Just Handshakes, it seems, are on the move. And we’re not just taking the name of their latest single as a sign. The Leeds band look to have dropped the ‘(We’re British)’ part of their name for something less regionalistic…
#14 Three Blind Wolves – In Here Somewhere
Three Blind Wolves showed us a wide range of influences and styles on their 2011 mini-album The Sound of the Storm. From surf rook to Celtic folk to blasting rock to hippy-dippy hand-clapping (a good thing, I’ll always say), these…
#13 Scowlin Owl – Mifune
Mifune by Scowlin Owl from Scowlin Owl on Vimeo. London-based four-piece Scowlin Owl tell us they sing songs “about the 2011 tsunami, creepy preachers, frozen cavemen, the Japanese John Wayne, the childlike love of waterslides and what Dolly Parton’s Jolene…
#12 Common Tongues – Solitary Thinker
We first featured Common Tongues on FFS when the New Bands Panel gave them the once over back in 2010. At the time, they had just the two songs on their myspace page, but an early take on Solitary Thinker…
EP | Soap&Skin – Sugarbread
You know when you put a Soap&Skin record on that things are about to get unsettling it and so it is that ‘Sugarbread’, the title track of her new EP, opens up with the muffled sounds of screaming layered over…