They Say: Matthew, Paul, Dimitri & Jack began making thier soft-centered dream pop back in early 2006. Switching between joyous pop-punk delight and delicate melancholia in a heartbeat, It Hugs Back melt layers of fuzzy vocals and guitars into their…
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Live review: Shearwater @ Rough Trade East, September 18th 2008
The remit for Shearwater’s live appearance at Rough Trade East was simple: play the new album, “Rook” in its entirety, in order. Unusually for an album exposition, this would take less than 40 minutes. And what splendid minutes they were.
Album review: Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship
Montreal-based Angela Desveaux’s second album The Mighty Ship opens with haunting Ballad The Other Side, on which Desveaux’s stunning vocals are complemented by sumptuous harmonies and laid-back orchestration.
Album Review: Shearwater – Rook
Shearwater are not normal. Not even slightly. The title track of this album (their first since signing to Matador) is an apocalyptic vision of a world where all the birds fall from the sky whilst the people all cower indoors.
Shearwater
Shearwater We Say: Texan folksters doing a splendid line in ethereal art rock. They Say: \\”pastoral prog-folk chaotic celestial mindfuckery\\” Band Members: Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kimberly Burke. Alumni: Howard Draper, Will Sheff. Associates: Kevin Schneider, Matthew Barnhart, Mark Sonnabaum,…
Live Review: Slow Club @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, August 28th 2008
Slow Club ripped up Shoreditch, and FFS were there to see it all.
EP Review: Slow Club – Let’s Fall Back in Love
Fall in love with the Sheffield two-piece’s plaintive, stomping, heartfelt debut.
Album Review: Tindersticks – The Hungry Saw
The turns they took to get here have been circuitous indeed (via Nottingham and Limousin, no less), but Tindersticks’ first album in five years feels, in many ways, as exciting as a first release. A pared-down return to the original three-man line up of Stuart A. Staples, David Boulter and Neil Fraser is, paradoxically, indicative of the sea change that the band’s lengthy hiatus has brought about.
Beth Jeans Houghton
They say: “In the past year 18 year old Newcastle based singer/songwriter Beth Jeans Houghton has garnered a reputation as an antidote to the current?crop of acoustic songstresses. With her alternative blend of experimental folk, Beth has been hailed by…
Woodpigeon
They say: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL: woodpigeon, led by Calgary musician/journalist Mark Hamilton, creates lush, romantic music that combines bright, delicious pop with gorgeous echoey harmonies and oddball orchestrations including some lovely guitar, banjo, shambling drums, a glockenspiel, piano, melodica and…