Great news for Ryan Adams fans who have grown tired of his attempts to become a) a rapper b) a metal-head or, more recently, c) invisible. The news is Ryan is back, acoustic guitar in hand and singing actual songs…
Album | Darren Hayman – The Ship’s Piano
“On March the twenty-third, she said something so absurd, she said: you love to be in love but you never really love.” So Darren Hayman sang as lead singer of Hefner a little over ten years ago on their seminal…
Playlist | Beth Jeans Houghton picks us some songs
Beth Jeans Houghton is gearing up for a busy time as she prepares to release new single ‘Liliputt’ on November 14 before her debut album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose follows in January. Before then, there’s a huge homecoming show at…
Album | Thea Gilmore & Sandy Denny – Don’t Stop Singing
In 2007, while compiling Sandy Denny’s unrecorded material for what would become last year’s monumental eponymous 19CD box set, the late Fairport Convention singer’s estate uncovered several sets of lyrics unused and unscored before her untimely passing in 1978, aged…
Album | Greg Hall – Run Barefoot Holler
An American-sounding Londoner, Greg Hall has built up an impressive list of film and theatre collaboration credits and now emerges blinking into the spotlight with a debut album in his own right. ‘This Ain’t Love’ and ‘Falling Rain’ – both…
Christmas things: Emmy the Great, She & Him, Slow Club, Carole King
FFS is sorry, very sorry, to be bringing you Christmas news this early*. We don’t want you to think of us like Tesco, ringing out cynical jingle bells from mid-October, or Boots pushing their Christmas sandwiches when it’s still balmy…