Having met in 2013 when recording a Lead Belly cover, Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini quickly bonded and began work writing and recording together. The fruits of those labours can be heard on their new EP Desert Songs, and to…
Did you hear the one about the three songwriters who walked into a bar? Well, a cafe, actually. Those three songwriters were Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace, and within two hours of meeting in East Nashville, they had…
Laurie Hulme, under his non-de-plume Songs for Walter, has crafted a LP in homage to his late grandfather, the eponymous Walter, 13 songs which verge between the biographical (‘Moon/Two out of Ten’ refers to Walter’s uneasy relationship with the idea…
Long-standing FFS favourites the Frisbys release their new EP on Friday, with a sold-out launch party the following evening, and it continues the high-quality offerings we’ve become accustomed to. The six-track offering opens with their recent double A-side single, ‘Born…
Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega released her seventh studio album, Faded Gloryville, in September last year. Working with co-producers John Paul White (ex-Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, Ortega introduced something of a Muscle Shoals feel to the…
On Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater sound a little like a-ha. The more electronic approach, the vocals, the fundamental feeling and structure of the opening tracks sends us back to the mid to late 80s. But their ninth studio album…