There are certain songs that catch you at just the right time and shape the way you experience and appreciate music forever. Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2 (XO) is a song that did that to a host of impressionable music lovers…
Patch and the Giant are a harmonising, foot-stomping, roof-raising seven piece folk band based in London. They run monthly shows at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London, which always have fabulous line-ups. In this, her second installment, we’ve asked Angie…
Well this is not the song we meant to bring you. We’ve spent today trawling the internet for a recording of ‘If God Did Give Me The Choice’ by this same band. And while we’re pretty impressed by this cover…
The first thing that usually springs to mind when we think of Brazilian music is the hedonistic party vibe of the Samba tunes which soundtrack Rio’s Carnival. But evincing an altogether gentler, sweeter, more introspective side of the country’s musical…
It’s a two-for-one bumper-bonus day here at FFS! Get your folk tunes while they’re hot! ‘Wires’ is the latest single taken from Basia Bulat’s album Tall Tall Shadow. You can hear the single here, but we love this session version of…
Anonymous Choir is the brainchild of Nona Marie Invie from Dark Dark Dark. Based in Minneapolis, they have recorded three albums: a re-imagining of Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, a selection of Leonard Cohen songs, and II featuring songs…