The last time Laura Marling played the Royal Albert Hall, she was touring A Creature I Don’t Know with a crafty band, members of which had created a life-sized replica of the blancmange-shaped icon of architecture in reverence to the heavyweight venue…
#126 David G Cox – Bag Of Bones
With a voice that sounds like the devil cutting loose in a jazz bar, David G Cox packs a lot of variety into his four-track Bag Of Bones EP, but no track shows off what he is all about quite…
#125 Kevin Pearce – Peaceful Skies
You may have heard Kevin Pearce on BBC Radio 6 Music, but one thing FFS’s favourite radio station cannot do for you is show you this charming video. Pearce’s new song ‘Peaceful Skies’ is about wishing you could take a…
#124 Hayden Thorpe & Jon Hopkins – Goodbye Horses
Listening to Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe singing “oh no sir, I must say you’re wrong” on this stunning cover version it’s not hard to convince yourself the lyrics were written specially for him. In fact he has teamed up…
Interview | Introducing…Farao
Farao may have only released one single so far but we’re already smitten. ‘Skin’ is everything you’d expect from the burgeoning Scandi folk scene – alternately icy and warm, ever so slightly gothic and perfectly executed. And, as her show…
Exclusive Stream | Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo – Dear River
Sharing’s friendly, especially when it’s a stream of a spangly new album that’s not available anywhere else until Monday, eh? Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo release their fourth album, ‘Dear River’, on Monday 8th July, but if you…