Some of our more dedicated readers might be wondering what the eff is going on with our Brian. He’s become somewhat lackadaisical about his playlist-composing duties lately, and we suspect he might be, well, having a hoot elsewhere. If anyone…
Album: Mr Love & Justice – Watchword
John G. Fagan says: Watchword, the latest album from Swindon band Mr Love & Justice is 1960s-esque, simplistic-yet-effective, folk pop. Stand-out track We, The Chartists, which has a Wicker Man feeling to it. Never Know Why is is another sterling effort.
Album: The Very Most – A Year with the Very Most
The Very Most made it their duty to soundtrack your 2009, releasing an EP for each season, which are now brought together in A Year with the Very Most. The album, which clocks in at a healthy nineteen songs with over…
Classic album recommendation: Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
Despite what anyone says, despite all the distinctly average albums since, Ryan Adams is a genius. Let’s go back nearly ten years to September 2000 and Heartbreaker, his un-missable, un-skippable debut album. Fourteen — well fifteen if you include the…
Laura Marling unveils I Speak Because I Can album artwork
Laura Marling HQ has unveiled the artwork for her forthcoming album I Speak Because I Can. The gorgeous painting is by English artist Sophie Milner, who also created the cover for Mumford and Sons’s EP The Cave. FFS also strongly…
Album: Midlake – The Courage of Others
Realising one’s role in the world is a seminal point in life that is too often underestimated, ignored. I doubt that Tiger Woods remembers the exact moment he picked up his first golf club, or the first time he saw…