For their fourth album, Band of Horses have the experience and confidence to create something bold and reach new listeners. Solid, assured and tightly crafted, many of these songs have shaken off much of their old sparseness. This works, and…
Interview | Stealing time with Stealing Sheep
Stealing Sheep’s inventive psych-folk has been running happily amok through the music world this year (they managed to play festivals on the Isle of Wight, in Norway and Wales in the week before speaking to us). Their keyboardist, Becky, gathered…
Album | Anja McCloskey – An Estimation
Half German, half American, living in Southampton, Anja McCloskey is a musician without borders. Wherever you put her music, it always sounds like it comes from somewhere else. Maybe somewhere European, perhaps a bit Russian or French Canada or some…
Stream | Debut album from Lucy Rose – Like I Used To
Like I Used To is the debut album from For Folk’s Sake favourite Lucy Rose. Haling from Warwickshire, we first heard Lucy when she leant her vocals to Bombay Bicycle Club, on their 2010 album Flaws. She has since released…
Exclusive | Paper Aeroplanes offer free download of new EP track
FFS favourites Paper Aeroplanes are readying a new EP to be released in November, and to celebrate they’re offering a free download of the title track ‘Time To Be’. Time to Be by Paper Aeroplanes The EP will be available…
Album | Alexander Wolfe – Skeletons
There is a moment just over a minute into Separated By A Smile, the closing track from Alexander Wolfe’s second album, when a lone trumpet is introduced – subtly at first, gradually coming to the fore as the song progresses…