With 2011 album, Viscera, Jenny Hval achieved a surprising hit, garnering generally favourable – if slightly perplexed – reviews, and a spot in Uncut’s ‘Top 50 Albums Of 2011’. ‘Surprising’(particularly for boys club, Uncut) because Viscera was an experimental, part-spoken…
#61 Landshapes – In Limbo
Landshapes, the latest band to come pre-packed with the Bella Union seal of approval, began life as the fabulously monikered Lulu and the Lampshades, but changed their name after a typo on their billing caught their fancy. Figuring they were…
#60 Little Sparrow – Sending The Message
Little Sparrow’s press release is one extended name-drop: Guy Garvey was the one that gave Katie Ware her musical pseudonym via the nickname he had handed her following her move from her native south to Manchester. But Ware should not…
News | Civil Wars return with new record
For Civil Wars fans, there’s good news and bad news. Six months after the band called an unceremonious halt to their European tour to take a break amid “internal discord“, Joy Williams and John Paul White have announced a self-titled…
Listen now | New EP from Fleetwood Mac
THE MAC ARE BACK! FFS are super excited about the return of Fleetwood Mac. Up til recently we thought our only interaction with the band would be singing along to Sara at the top of our lungs and defending them…
News | Nancy Elizabeth puts on dancing shoes with new track
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track,…