Category: Records

Album | Dylan LeBlanc – Cast The Same Old Shadow

Two years ago, Dylan LeBlanc’s debut album Pauper’s Field left us all wondering how something so world weary come come from a 20-year-old. Listening to his follow-up album it seems the Louisianan has found a way to do even more…

Album | Dollboy – Further Excursions Into The Ulu With Dollboy

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…

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…

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…