We’ve seen it before, umpteen times, and with a variety of bands of varying nature and design; 17 years in the music industry is an underestimated period of length, and often times, artists find themselves retreading previous trends and past…
A growing trend in 2016’s musical landscape appears to be female singer-songwriters with all of the potential in the world finally ascending beyond past expectations into a lane that is fully their own. We’ve seen it with Sierra Hull’s Weighted…
Benedict Benjamin, aka Ben Rubinstein and formerly of Peggy Sue and Mariner’s Children, is preparing his debut album Night Songs, due for release next month. Listeners to his music – you can hear it yourself below – will recognise among…
In a world of overnight sensations and “overnight sensations,” Uncle Lucius are one of the few bands fronting the modern music scene that seem to have grown into their shoes one local gig at a time. The band have made…
At this point, it may sound like a broken record when all critics are leaning towards the same direction when describing this album’s overall vibe, but referring to the perfectly apt naming of the band Seafret in relation to their…
On his second full-length album under the We/Or/Me moniker, Everything Behind Us is a Dream, Irish/Iranian singer-songwriter Bahhaj Taherzadeh defines simple, emotion-riddled Americanesque folk to a tee. Not unlike his first outing, Ghostwriter EP, or his first LP, The Walking…
“Separation” is a much broader term than most of us would give it credit for. While it would most certainly immediately be taken on as an inference towards a partition of physical or communicative value, the word could also successfully…
Long-standing FFS favourites the Frisbys release their new EP on Friday, with a sold-out launch party the following evening, and it continues the high-quality offerings we’ve become accustomed to. The six-track offering opens with their recent double A-side single, ‘Born…
Will Oldham has been scratching his name (or one of several others including Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) into the tree trunks of indie, folk and country for over two decades. Rooting his often dark, sometimes funny,…
Snowpoet is one of many diverse projects involving the prolific Lauren Kinsella, a Dublin-born, London-based singer, performer and even lecturer, here united with bassist Chris Hyson for an unusual, uneven but at times beguiling first full-length album. Fusing traditional singer-songwriter…