An original member of folk-rock super-group, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson has since garnered more awards than you can shake a stick at, including an OBE, Ivor Novello Award, BBC Life Achievement Award and a Grammy. That’s one heaving mantelpiece. We…
#11 Saturday Looks Good To Me – Invisible Friends
As we rush towards spring, naturally it’s time to start thinking about summer – and if it’s time to start thinking about summer, it’s time to start listening to upbeat, melodic indie-pop. Enter Saturday Looks Good To Me and their…
Album | Larkin Poe and Thom Hell – The Sound of the Ocean Sound
If ever a genre was in need of a spark of new blood, it’s country music. Sometimes it can feel a little like a museum piece: all nods and winks to the past and rigid adherence to a pre-defined structure.…
#10 Jack Burrell – Winterton
Jack Burrell writes sincere and hauntingly beautiful music from his hometown in Cambridge, and contacted FFS a while ago with a bunch of his songs. We absolutely fell in love with what he’s done, and the song I’ve chosen of…
Live | Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo, London
Emily Barker previewed forthcoming album ‘Dear River’ for three nights in London this March, and FFS was there for every last one of them.
EP | Soap&Skin – Sugarbread
You know when you put a Soap&Skin record on that things are about to get unsettling it and so it is that ‘Sugarbread’, the title track of her new EP, opens up with the muffled sounds of screaming layered over…