There is certainly a very large buzz circulating around the 16 year old Aberdeen songstress Cara Mitchell. Notching up support slots with Gemma Hayes and Pearl and the Puppets, as well as being compared to the likes of Ellie Goulding…
Album | Me & My Friends – Beneath A Level Head
You might not have heard of Me and My Friends before. In fact, if you’re not a regular around the Leeds music scene or a devotee of FFS’s New Bands Panel, you probably won’t have. After one listen to their…
Interview | Anais Mitchell talks proper folk, Hadestown, and thinking like a man
After 2010’s triumphant folk opera Hadestown, it was hard to see where Anais Mitchell had left to go. And with Young Man In America, she’s taken it down a notch: quieter and more introspective, it’s Young Man‘s characters that make…
Album | Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs – Sunday Run Me Over
After the best part of twenty years, it’s clear that Holly Golightly will forever languish as the musician’s musician. Despite numerous name-checks and guest appearances on dozens of records by artists as far afield as Mudhoney and the White Stripes,…
Album | Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who
It would be difficult to listen to Dark Dark Dark’s third, full-length album, Who Needs Who, without drawing comparisons with Regina Spektor and Anna Plaschg. The first track, of the same name, has all the dramatic, ponderous piano of the…
Live | Frightened Rabbit @ 93 Feet East, 21st September
Frightened Rabbit manage, somehow, to strike a fine balance between combative resistance and crowd-pleasing jollity in their live shows. Preferring those at the front of the room to those at the back (who’re probably in the music industry, and therefore…