Dollboy is the extravagantly bearded Oliver Cherer, formerly of Cooler, armed with a synthesizer alongside a host of more “traditional”, “folky” instruments. He has been performing under this moniker since the late 1990s and released two instrumental albums – including…
Category: Records
News | New Houndmouth EP – Exclusive Stream!
It’s not often FFS gets to use ‘Exclusive!’ like a red-top newspaper, but we’re very happy to announce an exclusive link to the debut EP by Kentucky newcomers, Houndmouth. Less soulful but bluesier and more hard-bitten than label buddies, Alabama…
Live | Dark Dark Dark @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
They’re not always nice or easy, but there’s no question we’ve been treated to some fantastic break-up albums over the past couple of years. Noah & The Whale’s The First Days of Spring, Josh T. Pearson’s The Last of the…
Album | Bard – The Springtime Fool
London is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s stifling. What you need is some perfect summer folk pop, right? How about local boys and girls Bard and their debut album The Springtime Fool? This is beautiful summery stuff, with tunes…
Listen | Dark Dark Dark’s ‘How It Went Down’
Two years on from the beautiful Wild Go, Dark Dark Dark will return in October with their third full-length albm Who Needs Who. Since we last heard from them, singer Nona Marie Invie and the band’s co-founder Marshall LaCount have…
Singles Round-up | James Yorkston, Kyla La Grange, Cellophane Flowers, Shambles Miller
James Yorkston- Border Song James Yorkston may be a folk musician but on this song he shows his early punk background. The words spill out as fast as he can manage to spit them. This isn’t pastoral folk, this is…
Album | The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends – Folk Songs II
Much of what we welcome under the banner of folk music would have rejected the tag in the not-too-distant past, preferring instead to go by acoustic or indie or nu-something-or-other. The Big Eyes Family Players, though, are folk through and…
Compilation | Just Tell Me That You Want Me – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute
For a band with such an inspirational back catalogue, it is a crying shame that many of the young generations would not know ‘Tusk’ or ‘Go Your Own Way’ unless it appeared on an episode of Glee or Geordie Shore…
Will Oldham – An Appreciation
The word ‘legend’ is rarely as acutely appropriate to a musician as it is to Will Oldham. It is so useful not because of stature, but because of mythologizing, because of the whole hagiography, the deifying of the thing. In…
Album | James Yorkston – I Was A Cat From A Book
James Yorkston seems to be releasing music and gigging all the time, but this is actually his first self-penned record since ‘When the Haar Rolls In’ four years ago. From the first note, you realise how much you’ve missed him.…