Who is Ólöf Arnalds? Why isn’t she regarded in awe by all with ears? Is the world so deaf to greatness that an artist of this calibre, this breathtaking brilliance, is confined to ‘specialist’ radio stations and name-checks in the…
News | HMV employee live-tweets mass firing
An HMV employee took to the company’s official twitter account today to live-tweet the HR process that s/he claimed resulted in 60 people being ‘fired’.
See the story unfold here.
Interview | Serafina Steer speaks her language
Until now, Serafina Steer has not had the acclaim she deserves. 2007’s Cheap Demo Bad Science and the more electronic Change Is Good, Change Is Good in 2010 were albums of left-field folksy joy and intrigue, their wilfully scattered themes…
News | Och that’s nice! Glasgow hosts R2 Folk Awards
Lots of FFS’s favourites were honoured in Radio Two’s annual Folk Awards in Glasgow last night. Among the winners were Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman who won Best Duo, Lau were named best group and Roy Harper was given a…
News | Staves to tour UK and Europe
The Staves have announced a full-scale UK tour in April and May. The band already had two shows at London’s Scala planned, but they have now added dates in Ashford, Oxford, Norwich, Bath, Cardiff, Sheffield and Manchester, as well as…
Album | Widowspeak – Almanac
Widowspeak’s eponymous debut album had a seductive wooziness to it, with an edge of smoky darkness. That shoegazing sleepiness is still there on the follow-up, especially in the sweet-but-vague vocal style of Molly Hamilton, but in Almanac it’s less creepy;…