Volcano Choir’s Repave is a beautiful album, not to be taken as a collection of songs, rather to be enjoyed as one piece of music in its entirety. That said, I felt like I only understood the power in the…
Album | Volcano Choir – Repave
Category: Reviews
Album | Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Upon hearing Pain is Beauty for the first time, even before reading in Chelsea Wolfe’s website bio that her third studio album is ‘a self-described love letter to nature’, it was clear that the essence resonating most strongly throughout is…
Album | Lucy Ward – Single Flame
From the first drum beat Single Flame creates an intense ambience reminiscent of an emerging Florence + the Machine, using her voice as the primary instrument Lucy Ward entrances the listener with epic and satirical lyrics. The power behind ‘I…
Album | The Dodos – Carrier
The Dodos have always been a band of the brain more than the heart, easier to admire than to love. They produce songs that are meticulously crafted with not a beat or a thought out of place. But there’s a…
Album | Laura Veirs – Warp & Weft
The ninth studio album by the Oregon veteran marks a return to more conventional material after 2011’s Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children. If that project seemed a surprising departure for “Two Beers Veirs”, this rock-tinged set…
Album | The Lunchtime Sardine Club – Icecapades
Icecapades, the debut album from The Lunchtime Sardine Club, pseudonym of Brighton musician Oliver Newton, comprises an intriguing array of songs and moods. The album was home-recorded over a year and a half, and right from the first, Newton reveals…
Album | Tess of the Circle – Thorns
After debut album Magpie Tess Jones returns with a new band of musicians, The Circle, in tow. Together they create a bigger, heavier rock sound that still has one eye on folk music. From the opening seconds of first track…
Live | Greenman Review 2013
Hidden in the depths of a valley in the Brecon Beacons lies one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Greenman Festival celebrated its tenth year anniversary, and served to be, yet again, one of the best festivals I have undoubtedly ever been to.
Live | Laura Marling, Cerys Matthews, The Stranglers & the London Sinfonietta @ Royal Albert Hall
Storytelling’s pretty key to what we like here at FFS, and opting out of words mainly seems like a waste of time that could be spent having your heart broken by Caitlin Rose, or mended by Johnny Flynn. In spite…
Album | The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
Break-ups are hard. Emotions are raw. Sometimes it takes a little while for the smoke to clear enough to see what, if anything, is still left standing. And The Civil Wars, in case you didn’t already know, is very much…