The term “break-up album” has been bandied around a lot recently. Coldplay’s Ghost Stories was teed up as the record to spill the beans on Chris Martin’s uncoupling, conscious or otherwise, from Gwyneth Paltrow, while Jack White and Dan Auerbach…
As their name might indicate, the Cadbury sisters promise a sweet intensity from their music, with its three part female harmonies and emphasis on plucked acoustic melodies. However, repeated listens to their new EP reveals a pleasingly dark bitterness, recorded…
If you’re a Midlake fan you’ll know this track ‘Aurora Gone’, taken from the band’s last album Antiphon. It comes from a new live concert film and documentary by actor Jason Lee and director Eric Noren called ‘Midlake: Live in…
Canadian-Swedish duo Thus Owls have just released ‘Bloody War’, the third single from their Turning Rocks record which has received plenty of acclaim since its release in April. FFS’ Joseph Merriman caught up with Erika and Simon Angell, as well…
Swopping his familiar position behind the mixing desk to the recording studio himself, Ethan Johns, with a production CV boasting the likes of Kings of Leon, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams to name just a few, has stepped to the…
There’s something quite old-fashioned in the best possible way about this new track from Dan Amor. Taken from his recent Rainhill Trials album, it’s dark and grungy, but it’s also thoroughly melodic and done with a light touch. Amor writes…