When you’ve been listening to a heap of new music, a mass of unfamiliar tunes, it’s easy for things to start to bleed into one, for the mind to glaze over and stop processing things. Normally, for something to break…
Category: Records
Album | Giant Giant Sand – Tucson
Tucson, the latest release from Howard Gelb-organized music collective Giant Sand (a group expanded here to become ‘Giant’ Giant Sand), is balanced, coherent, and aesthetically consistent. The aforementioned adjectives may not sound like a glowing review, but, in fact, those…
Album | Catherine AD – Reprise
With a handful of EPs under her belt an a mini live album, Communion, to which the NME attached cult status, Catherine AD has built up a fair amount of expectation for her debut full album. But that project got…
Listen | Album premiere – Esperi’s debut In A Moment, Emotion, Sentiment
Esperi release their debut album In A Moment, Emotion, Sentiment on July 2 and you can stream the whole thing exclusively on FFS this weekend in anticipation. Chris Marr’s band have produced a fine gem of a record, full of…
Album | Dent May – Do Things
Dent May emerged in 2009, an endearing geeky-looking crooner toting, in his own words, a magnificent ukulele. Three years on, he is back with a studio full of synths, ready to burrow his way into your summer soundtrack. The straightforwardly-titled…
Album | Duke Special – Oh Pioneer
Having made his name with wonderful baroque pop, Duke Special – AKA Peter Wilson – took a diversion with 2010’s The Stage, A Book And The Silver Screen, a triple album featuring the soundtrack for a production of Brecht’s Mother…
EP | All We Are – We Hunt
Liverpool-based trio All We Are sound so instantly accomplished that I’m a bit taken aback that I’ve never heard them before. Their latest EP, We Hunt, opens with ‘Trainspotting’ and a beguiling guitar riff reminiscent of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You…
Album | Stevie Jackson – (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson
As massive Belle and Sebastian fans (no surprises there), FFS were pretty keen to hear this album from their adorable guitarist Stevie Jackson. He is adorable in a sort of scatty-uncle-who-tells-the-best-stories-in-awkward-family-situations kind of way, and the inoffensive charm in his…
Album | Garforth & Myers – Garforth & Myers
Garforth and Myers is certainly a band name to remember if their debut album is anything to go by. Following on from their impressive EP Bonfires, the self-titled debut features a collection of beautiful folk songs reminiscent of Fleet Foxes.…
Album | Boy – Mutual Friends
Mutual Friends, by pop-songstress duo Boy, is smooth and sweet; ‘This Is The Beginning’, ‘July’ and ‘Army’ are warm and pleasant, worthy of a true boyband ballad, but their sound gathers life and force with ‘Little Numbers’, which has much…