UK festival goers will be able to see the series of short films created by Seamus Murphy to accompany each song on PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake on the big screen this summer. The 12 films will be screened together…
Author: Ian Parker
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Other Lives release ‘For 12’ video
Oklahoma’s Other Lives are preparing to unleash sophomore album Tamer Animals – their first proper release in the UK – later this summer, and whet our appetites with the dreamy ‘For 12’, which comes equipped with this rather lavish space-based…
Album: Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down
When Mumford & Sons recommend a 20-year-old banjo picker who is already on to her second album, it’s got to be worth a look. And so we found Texan Sarah Jarosz who brings us the rather fine Follow Me Down.…
Album: This Frontier Needs Heroes – The Future
History repeats itself, which explains why you can hear so much of the past in The Future, the second album from New York brother-sister pairing This Frontier Needs Heroes. Brad and Jessica Lauretti lap up influences from two of America’s…
Live: Anais Mitchell @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Anais Mitchell leapt into our consciousness with last year’s stunning folk-opera Hadestown, a sprawling masterpiece with a lengthy cast of distinguished contributers, not least Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, the Low Anthem’s Ben Knox Miller and Ani DiFranco. Lush instrumentation and…
Interview: The return of Duane Eddy
Sometimes an idea comes from so far out of left field it takes you a while to realise just how perfect it is. Like Duane Eddy, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall-of-Famer who invented the famous ‘twang’ sound, recording an album…
Album: Anna Waronker – California Fade
Former That Dog frontwoman Anna Waronker has kept fans waiting for her second solo album. While a little acting and film scoring may have got in the way, it’s nine years since her debut Anna was released, and no matter…
Album: Rubik – Solar
We’ll admit we don’t follow the Finnish music scene that closely, but were any of us to do so, we’d find Rubik somewhere near the top of the pile. Solar, released here in the UK only now, has already been…
Live: Alessi’s Ark @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
This is far from the first time FFS has seen Alessi Laurent-Marke perform live, but it might as well be. The shy girl whose last two gigs in Leeds were the lowest of low-key affairs in the corner of a…
Live: Smoke Fairies @ The Duchess, York
In the shadow of York’s great gothic Minster, the Smoke Fairies have come to weave their magic. Their haunting, ethereal music is ideal for this ancient city. While we may, in fact, be gathered in the basement of a 1960s…