Over at FFS HQ we’ve been looking forward to what we’re about to tell you for SO long that no amount of ‘long-awaited’s and ‘much-anticipated’s will cover it. The brilliant Mechanical Bride has finally announced her first album, Living With…
Little Sister Blue
Little Sister Blue’s multi-instrumentalist Sarah-Louise MacDonald and her three multi-talented friends have an EP Incidentally Yours To Keep out now on the Peppercorn Arts label – and in planet-friendly packaging, no less! James Robinson: I would say that Little Sister Blue sounds like Norah Jones (not…
Album: Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On
The concept of “genre fiction” or the “genre movie” is never one that’s stretched into the musical realm. Music is dealt with in terms of genres, but the idea of a band belonging to “genre music”, a set of recognisable,…
Album: The Crookes – Chasing After Ghosts
The first point of note here is that this is not, by any measure, a folk album. The second is that it is extremely enjoyable. Formed in Sheffield in 2008 and signed to Fierce Panda – who, put simply, very…
Album: Erland & The Carnival – Nightingale
Having enjoyed success as a rank-and-file member of The Verve, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Simon Tong is surely one of the biggest-selling guitarists you’d struggle to pick out of a line-up. His latest collaboration with…
Editor’s picks… Jens Lekman, The Wedding Band, Richard Hawley, The Extra Lens
Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson.…