London’s Harry Mundy is far from alone among English musicians who look across the Atlantic for their inspiration, but the story behind his debut album Colour Myself Back In seems to be one of those too-good-to-be-true tales from a land…
#122 Dead Man’s Bones – My Body’s a Zombie for You
You could be forgiven for thinking we only like Dead Man’s Bones cos it’s Ryan Gosling’s musical project with Zach Shields, but you’d be wrong. Their 2009 self-titled album features an unnerving children’s choir accompanying Gosling and Shields on 12…
News | Dodos to play single UK show
The Dodos have announced a major European tour, including the briefest of trips to the UK, to promote their new album Carrier. Meric Long and Logan Kroeber’s fifth LP, and their first since the death of touring guitarist Chris Reimer early last…
EP | Keston Cobblers’ Club – A Scene Of Plenty
It is said that many years ago in the village of Keston, in the London Borough of Bromley, the local cobbler would spend the evenings playing his fiddle to the raucous village rabble. The music he played was so foot-stomping…
Album | Jon Byrne – Built By Angels
Barrow-in-Furness, the shipbuilding ‘cul-de-sac town’ of Cumbria is, by his own admission, responsible for shaping many of Jon Byrne’s tales. On his impressive first album, It’s Boring Being in Control, these were tales of a working-class existence consisting of neighbours…
#121 Volcano Choir – Byegone
It’s hard to imagine their are many FFS readers who won’t be excited, intrigued or at the very least mildly interested to hear new material from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. That the new material comes not from Bon Iver but…