Blue Ridge mountain boy* Jonathan Wilson’s first album Gentle Spirit will be released on 8th August via seemingly infallible UK label Bella Union. Wilson is a songwriter musician and producer who has worked with Elvis Costello and Jackson Browne, who…
Playlist | Bellowhead choose 11 tracks
Brilliant 11-piece Bellowhead have put together an 11-song playlist of their influences and loves. It’s a great mix, from tracks we listen to all the time at FFS HQ, to gems we’d never heard before. We hope you enjoy it…
EP | Paul Thomas Saunders – Lilac and Wisteria
I remember seeing Paul Thomas Saunders a couple of years ago in his native Leeds. He was doing the whole emotive-bloke-with-a-guitar routine and, truth be told, he was doing it pretty well. It was with that expectation that I set…
News | Jeffrey Lewis collaborates with The Sussex Wit and Wave Pics for new album
Jeffrey Lewis has announced the release of his new album ‘A Turn in the Dream-Songs’ on 10th October. Jeff recorded the follow up to 2009’s ‘Em Are I’ in Manchester, and invited friends including Johnny Flynn, Au Revoir Simone, The…
Album | Dennis Hopper Choppers – Be Ready
What an inspired place Tabernas, southern Spain was for writing such a broodingly atmospheric album. Ben Nicholls headed for the land where Sergio Leone shot ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ to pen the songs that would become Be…
Album | Dead Trees – Whatwave
Languid garage rock is the American subgenre that refuses to die. It has endured, barely evolving, since being invented back in the 60s by the Velvet Underground, or maybe the Seeds. Its popularity waxes and wanes, sometimes breaking into the…