As we’ve basked in these balmy days of summer weather, there’s been an undeniable itch to break out of the office and go for a frolic in the countryside. It seems Martha Tilston also had that itch as that’s exactly…
We present ‘Get On Top’, our third and final song from our session with Louis Brennan. Louis describes ‘Get On Top’ as “a paean to the early days of romantic love and the kindness of strangers”. If you missed the…
After releasing a rather excellent set of songs under his own name alongside Jesca Hoop (Love Letters for Fire) in 2016, Sam Beam is returning with a new Iron & Wine record, Beast Epic, in the summer of 2017. With 11…
With the rise of quote-politicians-unquote like Donald Trump and Theresa May over the past couple of years have led many to believe that we as a world have taken so many steps forward only to take even more steps back.…
Our second session track from Louis Brennan is ‘The Culture of Resistance’: The Culture of Resistance is a song about apathy outweighing ideals set against the backdrop of a night of ecstasy fuelled Onanism with Jeremy Corbyn followed by the…
For the uninitiated, Michael P Cullen is an eclectic artist who, much like Cohen and Cave before him, dares to explore the darker edges of Americana to the point that one might be inclined to call it Gothic. Cullen offers…
Sam Airey’s debut album In Darkened Rooms has been a long time in the making – time in which his influences have expanded from the folk music he was raised on to include shoegaze, post-rock and Americana. To give us…
Sweet, heartfelt, and soul-bearing, the music of Lesley Kernochan is quick to fall in love with. With her lilting, storyteller’s vocals spinning a healing yarn against a warm acoustic backdrop, we at For Folk’s Sake certainly have. In our premiere…
Melding soaring pop-rock sensibility with the organic nature of acoustic folk music, Ryanhood are a duo that has been influenced by the world that they’ve uniquely lived through touring together as both artists and human beings for the 14…
We’re pleased to present the first of our session videos featuring singer-songwriter Louis Brennan. Louis’s songwriting covers modern society and politics, often critical and introspective, and tempered with dark humour. The first song is ‘Silence’, he’s what Louis says about…