Sam Airey’s debut album In Darkened Rooms has been a long time in the making – time in which his influences have expanded from the folk music he was raised on to include shoegaze, post-rock and Americana. To give us…
Premiere | Lesley Kernochan – The Universe
Sweet, heartfelt, and soul-bearing, the music of Lesley Kernochan is quick to fall in love with. With her lilting, storyteller’s vocals spinning a healing yarn against a warm acoustic backdrop, we at For Folk’s Sake certainly have. In our premiere…
Album | Jakob Pek – Acoustic Medicine
While pop radio formats would rarely allow it, the recent rise of the underground poking its way through social media has given a new audience to the oft-underrated fully instrumental stylings of modern day composers. Whether it be Kaki King…
Premiere | Ryanhood – Is This the Time of Our Lives?
Melding soaring pop-rock sensibility with the organic nature of acoustic folk music, Ryanhood are a duo that has been influenced by the world that they’ve uniquely lived through touring together as both artists and human beings for the 14…
Album Review | Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
Mac DeMarco isn’t necessarily well known for introspective, minimalist, emotional tunes. His aura of disgust is what his critics peg him for, boxing him in as a stoner-alt music maker for the art school dropouts listening on their Urban Outfitters…
Interview | The Last Rider is not the end of the road for Ron Sexsmith
You only have to look at the sleeve of Ron Sexsmith’s 13th studio album to see that something has changed. “I knew for this record the cover couldn’t just be another picture of me stood up against the wall,” Sexsmith…