Samantha Crain’s new album, out today in the UK on Full Time Hobby, is called Kid Face. This is because, Crain explains, she is regularly mistaken for a 16-year-old. “It gives me a great insight into people’s character and plenty…
It’s just beautiful, isn’t it? Sometimes the purest songs come from an unlikely source. This track, taken from French electronica duo Air’s 1998 debut album Moon Safari, came after the equally excellent but wildly different ‘Sexy Boy’ and ‘Kelly Watch…
Listening to Guided By Voices is a bit like going down a very deep mine. Lead singer Robert Pollard has well over 1,600 songs under his name and usually releases at least three albums a year… It’s a frightening prospect…
We love this track ‘Dead City Emily’, taken from Marissa Nadler’s upcoming new album July. July will be coming your way in February – we blame global warming – via Bella Union, so you know it’s good. There’s a purity to Nadler’s…
It may be hard to believe but Stephen Malkmus has now made more albums on his own or with his band, the Jicks, than he did with Pavement during their early 90’s heyday (For the record, this is his 6th…
FFS favourites Patch & the Giant have unveiled the video for their single Daniel, taken from The Boatswain’s Refuge EP. The video was directed by Andrew AB and features fellow folkies Inti Rowland, Lucy Cait, Nick Edward Harris, Andrew Butler…