Long-time readers of For Folk’s Sake and the New Bands Panel should remember the name of Erica Buettner, the Paris-based American who charmed us so in 2010 and then returned last year with a full-length album True Love And Water.…
Album | Jesca Hoop – The House That Jack Built
Championed by Tom Waits and Guy Garvey, California-born, Manchester-based singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop is back with a sumptuous third album. Infused with dark grief and surreal lyrics, the collection is beautifully balanced by full-blown quirky pop and imaginative dream-folk (not to…
EP | Slow Skies – Silhouettes
When you’ve been listening to a heap of new music, a mass of unfamiliar tunes, it’s easy for things to start to bleed into one, for the mind to glaze over and stop processing things. Normally, for something to break…
Interview | Introducing…Little Silver
It must have been, oooh, hours now since we last discovered a new band from Brooklyn. Next off the production line are Little Silver, a husband-and-wife pairing who have recently released an EP of covers, Dress Up. Normally we tag…
Album | Giant Giant Sand – Tucson
Tucson, the latest release from Howard Gelb-organized music collective Giant Sand (a group expanded here to become ‘Giant’ Giant Sand), is balanced, coherent, and aesthetically consistent. The aforementioned adjectives may not sound like a glowing review, but, in fact, those…
News | Laura marling confirms fourth album
Laura Marling revealed earlier today that she has finished writing the material for a hotly anticipated fourth album. Currently touring North America, she says she has completed the writing stage and has started work yet again with producer Ethan…