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For the first single of a debut album, ‘I Am Not Waiting Anymore’ sounds remarkably assured and controlled. But when you consider the background of the man behind Field Report – Chris Porterfield was member of DeYarmond Edison, the former…
Alt-folksters Woodenbox release their second album End Game next month. Lead single ‘Courage’ is out next week, but we love ‘Asphyxiation’, which shows off the band’s dark, brooding sound as the relentless piano drives the song forward before giving way…
I’ve never been to Dublin or any of its pubs, but have long been told it’s worth the trip. Principally, I had understood this was to indulge my taste for a pint of the black stuff, but if this is…
We at FFS bow to no one, except possibly Tom Ravenscroft, in our love for Tiny Ruins’ 2011 debut album Some Were Meant For Sea – so news of new material was just a little bit exciting. The fact that…
What is it about Nona Marie Invie’s voice that makes it so startlingly beautfiul? Its lack of pretension? Its unwavering tone? Or its quiet strength? Whatever it is, it’s showcased to perfection on new song ‘What I Needed’ – a…
However you go about getting there, it’s a long way from London to Portland, Oregon. But it’s even further if you go via busking stints in France and what we’re told was a time spent yodelling in the Swiss Alps.…
File Terry Emm on the list of the criminally underrated. The Bedfordshire songwriter has put out two fine, fine albums of a gentle folk music which has strong echoes of the English greats, and despite a wealth of critical acclaim,…
This brilliantly quirky little tyke from Cambridge and Harvard music graduate, Sasha Siem, is part folk, part jazz and part spoken word. Ironic, pithy, cheeky and with a perpetually raised eyebrow, it dances along to the none-too-shoddy accompaniment of the…
A lot has happened to Martin McNulty Crane since he self-released his first album, Phosperescent Blues, back in 2009. He’s toured with the likes of Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, The National and Iron & Wine, left Austin for Brooklyn,…
Asgeir Trausti is just 20 years of age, but in his home country of Iceland he’s already a pretty big deal. Indeed, as the fastest-selling Icelandic debut artist of all time, a winner of the Kraumur Award and a nominee…