The lovely Wood Festival will be taking place in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire on 17th 18th 19th May. We’re very pleased to annouce that Paper Aeroplanes and Liz Lawrence have joined the bill. They’ll be appearing alongside FFS favourites…
#39 Asgeir Trausti – Dýrð í dauðaþögn
Asgeir Trausti is just 20 years of age, but in his home country of Iceland he’s already a pretty big deal. Indeed, as the fastest-selling Icelandic debut artist of all time, a winner of the Kraumur Award and a nominee…
#38 Eels – It’s a Motherfucker
Today is the birthday of one of the most melancholy, beautifully-spirited men in the history of the world to date. Singing Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett a merry ditty to celebrate the occasion would be profoundly inappropriate, so instead we’ll…
Album | Laish – Obituaries
Obituaries are quite clearly the best part of the newspaper. Why? Because you get a short and easily digestible bit of history, written by a person with actual knowledge of the topic, and you always learn something new. It’s perhaps…
#37 Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding
Costello’s angry, sad and thoughtful reaction to the Falklands War is simply one of the best songs ever composed. Originally written in 1982 for Robert Wyatt, whose politics and guileless vocals offered rawness and authenticity, it is in Costello’s own…
EP | Annie Dressner – East Twenties
Annie Dressner sings deftly-told stories with a comforting love of the everyday. East Twenties opens with ‘Heartbreaker’, settling old scores with nostalgia and forgiveness: “But I won’t be back again, no I won’t be back again”. ‘I Can’t Forget’ deals…