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;…
Live | Daughter @ Hackney Empire
For some bands, as the venues they play in grow in size as does their confidence, but this doesn’t seem to be the case for Daughter. The Hackney Empire was their biggest headline show to date and they were obviously…
News | Heidi Talbot unveils album teaser
What better way to get people excited about your new album than by letting them hear four perfectly-crafted folk-pop songs from it? That’s exactly what Heidi Talbot has done for her new release Angels Without Wings and you can hear…