After years of producing outstanding records with the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King, Simone Felice’s debut solo album fell a little short. When it hit its highs, it was beautiful (look no further than opener Hey Bobby…
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Singles Round-up | Pistols At Dawn, Grass House, MAIA, Pipers, Mt. Wolf
Pistols At Dawn – Man.Wolf.Man The centrepiece bass on this recording-project-turned-band’s latest single is so like the brooding bass line on ‘Come Together’ it’s uncanny, but its goes far beyond its bluesy sound. The track’s scuffling brush beats, jangling acoustics…
EP | Tiny Birds – Local History
Tiny Birds, tiny portions. This London quintet deal in brevity, following up their eight-song, 25-minute debut album Hymns For The Careless with this new five-track EP. While not straying too far from the folk-pop template that has got them this…
EP | Tom Odell – Songs From Another Love
Two years ago, when I worked at former digital radio station Amazing Radio, Tom Odell and his band Tom & the Tides were a staple of the airwaves with his song ‘Spider’. This was a towering choral number with serious…
Album | Knife and Fork – The Higher You Get, The Rarer The Vegetation
Knife & Fork seem most noticed for performing as a support act for PJ Harvey, which carries some kudos, as she is basically a raven queen with shock and awe in her wings (band leader Eric Drew Feldman has a…
Album | Peter Broderick – These Walls of Mine
These Walls of Mine is without doubt one of the bravest, most boldy conceived albums this year and veers about as far from the standard singer-songwriter template as it is possible for a singer-songwriter to do. It’s also a crashing…
Pictures | For Folk’s Sake presents Hush @ The Royal Albert Hall
On Saturday night, For Folk’s Sake had the pleasure of hosting Hush, a fantastic night of music in the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room. A sell-out crowd enjoyed performances from Mary Epworth, Gerard & The Watchmen and Joe Innes in…
EP | Fossil Collective | On & On
David Fendick and Jonny Hooker, otherwise known as Fossil Collective, will be familiar to some as they were in the short-lived Leeds quintet Vib Gyor. Their fortunes though could be on the up. Their debut EP, Let It Go, was…
Album | Field Music – Play…
Field Music Plays… is a release that couldn’t have come at a better time for the Sunderland trio given their recent Mercury Prize nomination. Some of the eight songs compiled on this stopgap release were b-sides whilst others whilst others…
Album | Bellowhead – Broadside
The first thing to say about Bellowhead’s new album is that Broadside is a great title. Referring both to circulating ‘broadside ballads’ of centuries gone by, and to the ‘broadside’ of a ship (that’s the side with the cannons )…