As you might expect from a group as interesting as The Unthanks, Diversions is not a straight covers album. Rather it is a re-imagining, a project in its own right, comparable to many other ‘versions’ projects that have emerged from…
Chris Addison on The Leisure Society
Thursday night saw The Leisure Society perform with The Heritage Orchestra at the Barbican in London. It was as triumphant a show as you might expect. Hearing the songs we know and love so well treated with the reverence they…
News | Stealing Sheep Debut EP: Out Now + Tour Dates.
Having recorded their first single “I am the Rain” at Abbey Road studios earlier this year, followed by an invite to play a live session at BBC’s Maida Vale; Stealing Sheep have released an 8-track EP (or mini LP perhaps) via Heavenly…
Album | Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
“Please be merry, when I am buried/In the ground”. Despite recently playing for Kate n’ Wills in his native Canada, FFS favourite Dan Mangan seems a bit glum right now. Moving on from the flimsier topics (robot love and that)…
Album | The Lowland Hundred – Adit
An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
Album | King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…