The album from Manchester’s Travelling Band is full of emotionally driven, instrumentally catchy and lyrically powerful songs. As The Big Defreeze was my first experience with the band, I can say with certainty I will be taking a trip through…
Regular FFS readers will have heard of Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton before. Holly was one of our picks in the 2011 Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition, and we’ve already reviewed some of her releases with Chris. But now it’s time…
Fictonian is a new project put together by researchers at the University of Phoenix in a bid to devise the perfect song. Locked in laboratories day and night with a handful of Fleetwood Mac albums they’ve been trying to determine…
When I first heard about Adam Cohen I greeted both he and his music with a subtle expectation and a preconceived idea of what he should be as an artist. When Leonard Cohen is your father – a Canadian national…
Sean Rowe’s voice is an astonishing instrument. It has soul, it has a deep, warm, raw animal energy, and it has a magnificent bluesy timbre. Yet, it is also focussed and beautiful. It’s hard not to be totally overwhelmed by…
Much loved Canberra-born musician Kim Churchill has announced the UK release of his album Silence/Win, released on Atlantic Records on 22nd September. Silence/Win was recorded earlier this year, and saw the 24 year old Australian nomad live under a permanent roof for the…