End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a…
Album: Alexander – Alexander
The ‘Solo Career’ section of Alexander Ebert’s Wikipedia page states simply and coolly: “In 2010, Alexander began to dabble with a solo career.” Imagine this line as the last of a movie trailer – the line that tells us all…
Live: Ólöf Arnalds @ Vortex Jazz Club, 1 March
I first heard Ólöf Arnalds when her song ‘Surrender’ came on the radio and made my ears prick up. Eerily understated, it quickly gets under the skin. The music video, in which a haunted-looking Ólöf wanders in damp, gloomy forest, exploring…
Album: Firefly – Lightships
Sometimes you want music that’s happy in the background: tunes and rhythms into which you can snuggle down, safe and sound and comforted. This kind of music is highly necessary and vitally important to day-to-day life. Firefly do not make…
Album: Wye Oak – Civilian
Listening to Wye Oak’s third full-length release, one conclusion among many confusions is apparent: when they’re good, they’re great. For a so-called indie-folk duo, though, it’s maybe surprising that the key component of Civilian is its unrelenting tautness. It offers…
Matrimony
Matrimony are an Irish man and an American woman that left their respective bands to make ‘indie-folk triumphant heart music’ together – the panel stepped in to see what that means, exactly… Gemma Hampson: Ooh, someone likes the Fleet Foxes.…