Inspired by comedian Josie Long’s One Hundred Days project I will be listening to and reviewing one new band a day for 100 days from 1st December. It could be just from their myspace, or a single album or EP…
Album: Wild Honey – Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug
Spanish charmadillos Wild Honey have produced a truly beautiful album: fantastical melodies and schoolroom instruments accompany gentle, nostalgic storytelling that somewhat resembles the best bits of Belle and Sebastian.
Album: Wye Oak – The Knot
Every so often an album comes out of nowhere and absolutely blows your mind in such a way that you wonder how you even survived without it. Instantly you get a connection with it and it rings so true that you wonder if this band was made entirely for you. And according to Wikipedia- as if to make them even more impressive- Andy Stack plays drums and the bass lines at the same time at gigs. Again, this is Wikipedia… but if true, wow.
Live: Monsters of Folk @ Troxy, London
An evening spent with Monsters of Folk, a merry band of musical brothers I have admired for what feels like most of my musical existence: there was no way this wasn’t going to be good.
Cocos Lovers in a pub
What could be better than a lovely bit of acoustic folk in a country pub on a winters evening? Nothing? We agree… feast your eyes: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTo5XFdECBk] The band say: ?”We will be at the Enterprise, Camden headlining a Folking Good…
FFS recommends: Caitlin Rose
FFS had Caitlin Rose recommended to us by Matt over at Stay Loose, had a chat with Anika about her who’d just discovered her too — through the rather amazing Names Records — and before we knew it we were booking her for our next Allotment show.