“Separation” is a much broader term than most of us would give it credit for. While it would most certainly immediately be taken on as an inference towards a partition of physical or communicative value, the word could also successfully…
Several things are striking about this return from Josephine Foster. There are a mere seven tracks here, including some that revisit and rework material from her back catalogue. It’s not a new idea, but gives the impression that this record…
Did you hear the one about the three songwriters who walked into a bar? Well, a cafe, actually. Those three songwriters were Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace, and within two hours of meeting in East Nashville, they had…
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…
Long-standing FFS favourites the Frisbys release their new EP on Friday, with a sold-out launch party the following evening, and it continues the high-quality offerings we’ve become accustomed to. The six-track offering opens with their recent double A-side single, ‘Born…
On Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater sound a little like a-ha. The more electronic approach, the vocals, the fundamental feeling and structure of the opening tracks sends us back to the mid to late 80s. But their ninth studio album…
Just 18 months after one of her greatest achievements, Lucinda Williams returns with The Ghosts of Highway 20, a meaty concept album which the Louisiana songwriter has not merely gotten her teeth into but excelled at. Her list of accomplishments…
Will Oldham has been scratching his name (or one of several others including Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) into the tree trunks of indie, folk and country for over two decades. Rooting his often dark, sometimes funny,…
Snowpoet is one of many diverse projects involving the prolific Lauren Kinsella, a Dublin-born, London-based singer, performer and even lecturer, here united with bassist Chris Hyson for an unusual, uneven but at times beguiling first full-length album. Fusing traditional singer-songwriter…
With their second album, Not To Disappear, Daughter have done what many before them have – developing an electronic, lighter tone that handsomely complements and strengthens Elena Tonra’s mournful vocals. The breezier sound adds a zephyrean, lighter mood to the…