Album: The National – High Violet

There’s something frighteningly well thought out about High Violet – over its 47 minute duration every song seems perfectly well placed to create the mood that the band want you to feel. Whilst it’s certainly not a concept album there…

FFS interview: The Chapin Sisters

FFS doesn’t know what it was expecting. Ethereal green gowns, most likely, a walk so smooth it may better be described as a drift. Or perhaps something quite opposite – the two Chapin Sisters appearing ominously at the top of the hotel staircase, dressed in black and lost in a very personal silence.