For some time now, London’s finest folk musicians have been gathering at Kings Cross’ Queens Head, showcasing their talents at the Folkroom. With a steadily growing audience, it only seems right to match this, which is exactly what the team…
As you might expect from a group as interesting as The Unthanks, Diversions is not a straight covers album. Rather it is a re-imagining, a project in its own right, comparable to many other ‘versions’ projects that have emerged from…
“Please be merry, when I am buried/In the ground”. Despite recently playing for Kate n’ Wills in his native Canada, FFS favourite Dan Mangan seems a bit glum right now. Moving on from the flimsier topics (robot love and that)…
An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…
AA Bondy’s third album Believers opens with the pounding beat of ‘The Heart Is Willing’ and straight away it seems to immediately lay down a marker that this is going to be a more powerful, more direct record than those…
Extra Classic hail from home-of-counterculture San Francisco. Some of the six band members have previously played with The Papercuts and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and as recently as 2007 were supporting Modest Mouse and Conor Oberst. So far, so…
We Are Augustines – Book of James This reminds me of the emotional fervour of Mumford & Sons with less righteousness, more of an incantation than a battlecry. Inspired by family and loss, it’s a eulogy to lead singer Billy…
What sort of songs would you like on your car radio in Snow City? Assuming everything in Snow City is covered in snow, like some Christmas film vision of New York and that I get to wear one of those…
The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But…