Alberta Cross have certainly racked up a lot of attention since their acclaimed debut album, Broken Side of Time. Tour commitments with Oasis and Them Crooked Vultures, plus coveted airtime on Radio 1 mean that their latest release, Songs of…
Album | Malcolm Holcombe – Down The River
Malcolm Holcombe has never previously sounded like a man in much of a hurry. A 57-year-old of remarkable sideburns, the North Carolina bluesman was in his 40s when he finally got around to releasing his debut album, and the follow-ups…
Album | The Fresh & Onlys – Long Slow Dance
The Fresh & Onlys look, according to their press release, “exactly like a biker gang composed of record store employees who could stomp your ass while shouting Kobaïan (that language ‘70s French prog band Magma made up) at you, if…
Interview | Starstruck – FFS chats to Stevie Jackson
Stevie Jackson has had an illustrious career. Not content with an enormously successful 16 years with genre-defining band Belle and Sebastian, he’s played with the Bill Wells Trio, The Store Keys and regularly lends his guitar skills to iconic…
Album | Grizzly Bear – Shields
It’s far from an unfamiliar story: art-house indie band makes a huge breakthrough album, and then wrestles with the right way to follow it up for years. Veckatimest catapulted Grizzly Bear out of the experimental backwaters and firmly into the…
Interview | Introducing…Alexander Wolfe
Sometimes you just need to be moody, introspective – sad, even. This is where Alexander Wolfe comes in, purveyor of what has been described as ‘doom-folk’. We’re not sure ‘doom’ quite covers it – first album, Morning Brings A Flood…