If you list your key influences as Neil Young and the Beach Boys, you’re pretty much conspiring to target us here at FFS (Or at least most of us). So it’s no surprise that we keep coming back to tracks…
#456 Suntrapp – Silhouettes
Album | Broken Records – Weights and Pulleys
This is a gem of a record. Pure, simple and undeniable. It took Scottish six-piece Broken Records three years to make their third album, and it sounds like every second of it was time well spent. As with their previous…
Album | Moulettes – Constellations
There was never any danger of the Moulettes turning out a dull album. Constellations is a punchy, bolshy creature, replete with a dense polyphony of sound and harmony. Building on the alt-folk experimentalism of 2012’s The Bear’s Revenge, this album…
Album | Amy LaVere – Runaway’s Diary
Runaway’s Diary was inspired by the ramblings of Seasick Steve, and by Amy LaVere’s own brief stint as a teenage runaway. She inhabits a similar landscape to Lissie’s whole-hearted country rock, with hints of Tom Waits in his more romantic…
#455 Roo Panes – Tiger Striped Sky
https://soundcloud.com/crcmusic/roo-panes-tiger-striped-sky-1 We’re excited to hear an album is on the way from Roo Panes, an artist we’ve been following for a little while now. If this single, ‘Tiger Striped Sky’, is anything to go by, it’s going to be one…
#454 Pocket Satellite – This Town
‘This Town’ is the opening track from 8-bit Me, the new EP from five-piece Pocket Satellite, who divide their time between London and Sheffield. While the song is plenty of fun, they’ve also devised a belting game to play while…