Remember that favourite jumper you used to wear all the time? The one that is in every photo from 4-5 years ago, and which now is probably lying at the bottom of the wardrobe, just waiting to be put on…
Album | M. Ward – More Rain
Author: Joe Sweeting
Album | Lily and Madeleine – Keep it Together
Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz, sisters from Indianapolis, appear to have a knack for delivering consistently high quality records, sung with a breathy style that is beautiful to listen to. Keep it Together is their third LP, and stands alongside their…
Album | Songs for Walter – Songs for Walter
Laurie Hulme, under his non-de-plume Songs for Walter, has crafted a LP in homage to his late grandfather, the eponymous Walter, 13 songs which verge between the biographical (‘Moon/Two out of Ten’ refers to Walter’s uneasy relationship with the idea…
Album | Little May – For the Company
Australia’s alternative music scene is burgeoning currently. After the success of Antipodean wordsmith Courtney Barnett and her angular, spikey point of view songs, Little May arrive to the British shores with an album that could easily match the craftsmanship of…
Album | Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes
Arriving a little less than 12 months after their debut record in 2014, Ultimate Painting, made up of James Hoare from indie band Veronica Falls and Jack Cooper from Mazes, have unleashed another set of Velvet Underground-aping tracks into the…
Album | Mac DeMarco – Another One
Another year, another Mac DeMarco record. Arriving just 12 months after 2014’s Salad Days, Another One sees DeMarco exploring love and romance, setting his lyrics to a wonderfully chilled out musical backdrop. If DeMarco was to be compared to another…
Album | Samantha Crain – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
First things first – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree is a very good record, nay, it is an extremely good record. Transcending the ‘folk’ tag attached to her following the release of her eponymous debut, Samantha Crain has produced…
Album | Keston Cobblers Club – Wildfire
A band with a larger-than-life backstory (the ‘cobblers’ part of the name is said to come from a cobbler in the town of Keston, who, alongside other townsfolk, made music to make people dance, which in the process would ruin…
Live | Dot to Dot Festival- Nottingham 2015
The Dot to Dot festival was celebrating its 10th anniversary this past bank holiday weekend, so For Folk’s Sake decided to make the short journey south to Nottingham to experience one of the finest inner-city festivals in the country. Now…
Album | Alabama Shakes – Sound and Color
Having had one of the ‘songs of the summer’ in 2012 with the ubiquitous ‘Hold On’, which seemed to be playing all over the radio, in every shop, and at every festival across the world, Alabama Shakes took some time…