Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott of the Fleet Foxes are about to unveil the fruits of a long-running collaboration with Ian and Peter Murray of the Christmas Cards in the form of the debut EP of their band Poor Moon.…
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EP Review | Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Michael Kiwanuka stands on the precipice in 2012. The two EPs with which he introduced himself last year, Tell Me A Tale and I’m Getting Ready earned an avalanche of praise, including plenty here, and deservedly so, for few songs…
EP | Mina Tindle – Mina Tindle
After lending her voice to projects including but not limited to The National’s Boxer, J.P. Nataf’s Claire and a set of Talking Heads songs on French television, Mina Tindle is ready to strike out on her own. The Parisian is…
Live | Hannah Peel @ Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
With mulled wines in hand, the people of Leeds have packed into the pews of the Holy Trinity Church to hear one of their own deliver the annual Christmas service from the local Gaslight Club. Well, nearly. Hannah introduces herself…
Blog | New music from Allo Darlin’, Foxes!, We Are Augustines, Jess Morgan & The Bandana Splits
Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a…
Album | The Lowland Hundred – Adit
An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
Album | King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…
Album | AA Bondy – Believers
AA Bondy’s third album Believers opens with the pounding beat of ‘The Heart Is Willing’ and straight away it seems to immediately lay down a marker that this is going to be a more powerful, more direct record than those…
Exclusive | Musical Charis debut new video
It’s easy to forget how much fun water balloons can be. Or, as winter draws in, what the sun looks like. But Musical Charis are here to remind us. The former New Bands Panel favourites have handed us the UK…
News | Bowerbirds offer download as preview to new album
Bowerbirds will return with a new album The Clearing in March next year and have given us a preview with a free download of ‘Tuck The Darkness In’. The band headed north to Wisconsin to record parts of their third…