One of the bands hotly tipped to make 2013 a year to remember are Californian duo Foxygen. Their debut EP Take the Kids off Broadway featured prominently on many an end of year lists, and the anticipation for their first…
Album | Alasdair Roberts & Friends – A Wonder Working Stone
A Wonder Working Stone is, depending on how you count it, the eighth album by Alasdair Roberts, the rake-like Scottish folk bard-bellower with the cello-bow voice. It’s not, by any means, an easy voice. But it is a rich one,…
Interview | Josephine on new album ‘Portraits’ and appearing on Jools Holland….
Mancunian singer-songwriter Josephine recently released her second album Portrait to great acclaim. Her music is a combination of soul and folk, with a healthy dose of pop which was recently showcased on ‘Later with Jools Holland’. We caught up with her to chat about that…
Interview | Katy Carr – woman on a mission
Katy Carr is on a mission. The daughter of a British father and Polish mother, her fourth album, Paszport, is a tribute to lost and forgotten Polish war stories that is both moving and a darn good listen. Carr’s first…
New Bands Panel | Lily Mae – Early Days EP
Although many of our readers will outright refuse to believe human beings born in 1997 actually exist, they do. And luckily some of them have the talent of Lily Mae, a precocious folk singer songwriter from the US of A.…
Vinyl | Our top albums for analog.am
When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than…