When I looked up Theoretical Girl, (AKA Amy Turnridge), on wikipedia they described her music as Chamber pop- an odd explanation, but probably the most accurate! My description would go more like this: ‘50’s style romantic pop mixed with folk, electro and angst’. On the whole the album is sweet and full of catchy chorus’ that come off as innocent pop. However, after a closer listen you realise Amy isn’t all sweetness and light. When you really listen to the lyrics you hear lines such as “You’re the biggest mistake I ever made”…. “I should have loved you more”….. and “My love is unrequited” – suddenly she isn’t this little girl with cute ditties and romantic tales- she’s you and me.
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Festival: Carey at Indietracks – part 4
Part four: in which Carey tastes celestial Italian melodies, ultra-camp Euro-pop and realises that if you don’t like Teenage Fanclub, you’re probably a twat.
Festival: Carey at Indietracks – part 3
Part three: in which Carey finds himself unimpressed by FFS favourites Cats on Fire and Camera Obscura, but beguiled by Emmy the Great.
Festival: Carey at Indietracks – part 2
Part two: in which Carey discovers that if Morrissey had been a bit more chatty and a bit less veggie, the Smiths would still have been quite good.
Festival: Carey at Indietracks – part 1
FFS’s Carey Davies took a trip to Indietracks festival in Derbyshire. In part one of this four part review our intrepid reporter loses confidence in his state of mind, only to have it restored by checked shirts and drainpipe jeans.
Album: Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper
So Interpol’s frontman Paul Banks has joined the growing ranks of blokes in bands releasing solo records, but does the world need another outlet for his creative juices?
On first listen, and particularly on first track Only If You Run, you’d have to say a big fat ‘no’. It plods, it whines, and it lacks any of the tense energy of Interpol at their best.
Album: Sam Baker – Cotton
In 1986 Sam Baker was blown up Peruvian terrorists. He spent days in hospital unable to move, he underwent weeks of surgery including on his brain and treatment for shrapnel and gangrene. After the explosion Sam had to learn to walk and talk again. He’s deaf in one ear and the loudest sound in the other is ringing.
Track-by-track: Rachael McShane – No Man’s Fool
Bellowhead’s cellist, singer and violinist Rachael McShane takes us through her first solo album, No Man’s Fool, track-by-track.
Live Review: Stars of Sunday League EP Launch @ The Luminaire, London
The folkstars were out in force on Monday night for the Stars of Sunday League’s launch of EP ‘The Boy’s Got Prospects’.
First up were I Said Yes, who came from all over the UK to play just two tracks. FFS has been looking forward to hearing them for some time. And – despite having to switch around parts thanks to a singer with no voice – they didn’t disappoint. I Said Yes play lovely and rousing folk pop with accordion and violin.
EP: Peggy Sue – Lover Gone
Too many modern love songs are built on the shakey foundations of cliches, done-to-death themes and dodgy rhymes. This makes the originality of Peggy Sue’s new ‘Lover Gone’ EP all the more impressive and delighting. The title track is a love song that’s not a love song, to a person who was a lover, but is one no longer, about a four year relationship that’s very much over.