It would be fair to say Scroobius Pip is not a name I ever expected to write on this website. However, from the wondrously bearded rapper-poet’s new Speech Development label comes man of mystery Jackamo Brown with his curiously titled…
Album | The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
Transcendental Youth is an album about being young and reckless, about Frankie Lymon, about the Diaz Brothers, about running and jumping and leaving everything behind. An album about the fleetingness of youth that could, perhaps ironically, only have been written…
EP | Cara Mitchell – Have You Ever Wondered
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,…