There’s a carefree joy to Allo Darlin’ that can be completely irresistible. ‘Dreaming’, the opening track from their 2010 self-titled debut album, is a perfect example of that. It’s the very best type of twee, the sort that puts a…
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Playlist | Our picks of End of the Road 2013
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Album | Allo Darlin’ – Europe
If Belle & Sebastian are indeed, as they are often described, the “acceptable face of twee”, then bands like Allo Darlin’ are very much the unacceptable depth of the iceberg below the water – intimidating in their lightness, in their…
Live | Allo Darlin’ @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
‘I feel like dancing on my own to a record I do not know’ declares Elizabeth Morris as she sings ‘The Polaroid Song’. And while this song from their wonderful debut is an exception, that is largely what we’re here…
Singles | Beth Jeans Houghton, The Cornshed Sisters, Allo’ Darlin and Lucy Rose
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny – ‘Sweet Tooth Bird’ So I remember in primary school hearing a story about a father who challenged his daughters to fill a room with something to prove they loved him, which…
Blog | New music from Allo Darlin’, Foxes!, We Are Augustines, Jess Morgan & The Bandana Splits
Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a…
News | Allo Darlin’ announce UK tour ahead of new album
Allo Darlin’ will be making a most welcome return in early 2012 with a lengthy tour preceding the release of their second album Europe. Elizabeth Morris and her crew, Paul Rains, Bill Botting and Michael Collins, will play a show…
Album | Vostok 5 – Vostok 5
Vostok 5 is a collection of songs about man’s first uncertain explorations into space. Some of them are about men, both on the ground and in the rockets themselves; some who made it, some who never made it and some…
News | Vostok 5: Darren Hayman contributes to space exhibition
FFS favourite Darren Hayman has contributed songs and drawings to a London exhibition Vostok 5, on People and Animals in Space. Hefner frontman Hayman has teamed up with Duncan Barrett of Tigercats, Robert Rotifer, Sarah Lippett and Paul Raines from…