Hot from the newly-released, eponymous record, ‘Suddenly’ is Junip at their best – futuristic, Kraftwerky synths layered with José González’s delicate guitar picking and a Casio coconut beat. What other band could mix those sounds with such great results? None, that’s…
The Magnetic North are re-releasing their debut album with an accompanying film, ‘Hunting For Remoteness’. Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a collaboration between Erland Cooper from Erland & The Carnival, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong (The Verve, Gorillaz), was first released…
Any FFS review, mention or even hint of Joe Innes & the Cavalcade will need to come with something of a disclaimer. You see, our editor, Lynn Roberts, is IN THE BAND. So we’re not going to editorialise, we’d just…
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a…
Melodica, Melody and Me have undergone a refit and re- emerged simply as The Melodic. Their first offering in the new syllable-efficient guise shows that while the name has changed, the joy of their simple sound has not. They’ve taken…
The crammed-in crowd of eager ears awaiting The James Riley Band’s set tonight at The Bedroom Bar demonstrates a pay-off for the hard work in the lead up to the launch of the debut, Lay Me Down EP. “You met…