“I want you, I’m stupid. Don’t blame me, blame cupid – his aims never been all that hot. But he hit both with our hearts with his random wee darts, my love you just got what you got.”
So sings Aidan Moffat in his lovable Scottish tones on A Scenic Route to the Isle of Ewe from his new album. As Valentines Day inspired declarations of love go it doesn’t quite set the soul aflame with the aching heat of romance. But that’s not what Aidan’s here
Jay Jay Pistolet has been confirmed as support for Noah and the Whale on their springtime UK tour.
First Aid Kit will be arriving to patch up London town with an instore set at Pure Groove Records on Monday February 23rd at 1:15 pm. Yes, this is lunchtime and yes, it’s a Monday, but we put it to you, FFS fans, that we can fill that wee record shop with like-minded individuals and make Monday that little bit brighter. These special Swedish siblings will delight your ears with their simmering harmonies and light-as-the breeze melodies.
“If you get referred to with other artists you really don’t agree with then you feel like their politics might besmirch yours.”
Here at For Folk’s Sake HQ, we are so excited about this release that we’ve had to change our collective trousers. Emmy the Great has been working the London gig circuit with her dark but charming brand of folk for ages and ages, and it’s proper wonderful that she’s finally putting an LP out into the world.
Tear It Open is the forthcoming album from Scotland’s ‘Le Reno Amps’ – a band that, in its own words, tries “to write songs with all the fat cut off so you can savour their buttery goodness”. Ironic then that a band setting out such noble intentions should produce music that fails to either please or repell.