It is important throughout your life to proclaim your joy. So Mark Eitzel told us on his 2001 EP. Eleven years on, as he releases his latest album Don’t Be A Stranger, the 53-year-old has more reason than ever to…
Author: Ian Parker
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Album | Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
The story of Alynda Lee Segarra’s drift into the music business is one of those that seems a little too good to be true. The notion that, by the age of 17, she had already escaped The Bronx to drift…
EP | Joe Banfi – Iron
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Communion are releasing a new EP by a singer-songwriter whose distinctive voice is, all by itself, enough to lift him above the crowd. And so Joe Banfi follows in the footsteps of…
Exclusive | Paper Aeroplanes offer free download of new EP track
FFS favourites Paper Aeroplanes are readying a new EP to be released in November, and to celebrate they’re offering a free download of the title track ‘Time To Be’. Time to Be by Paper Aeroplanes The EP will be available…
EP | Abagail Grey – Dark Wood
Claire Campbell chose the stage name Abagail Grey after meeting the character in what is described as an “eerily vivid dream”. And for that, she could hardly have a better name, because listening to her music seems like a slightly…
Album | Malcolm Holcombe – Down The River
Malcolm Holcombe has never previously sounded like a man in much of a hurry. A 57-year-old of remarkable sideburns, the North Carolina bluesman was in his 40s when he finally got around to releasing his debut album, and the follow-ups…
Album | The Fresh & Onlys – Long Slow Dance
The Fresh & Onlys look, according to their press release, “exactly like a biker gang composed of record store employees who could stomp your ass while shouting Kobaïan (that language ‘70s French prog band Magma made up) at you, if…
Album | Grizzly Bear – Shields
It’s far from an unfamiliar story: art-house indie band makes a huge breakthrough album, and then wrestles with the right way to follow it up for years. Veckatimest catapulted Grizzly Bear out of the experimental backwaters and firmly into the…
EP | The Paper Shades – Where You Lay
First and foremost, what grabs you when a Paper Shades song strikes up is the beauty of the harmonies between Sarah Dollar and Jon Rixon. It’s not a sound that’s going to get old in a hurry, and as soon…
Album | Dylan LeBlanc – Cast The Same Old Shadow
Two years ago, Dylan LeBlanc’s debut album Pauper’s Field left us all wondering how something so world weary come come from a 20-year-old. Listening to his follow-up album it seems the Louisianan has found a way to do even more…