Covers albums are notoriously difficult to pull off effectively. Mixing the necessary reverence to the artist whose tunes are being re-rendered with trying to tease out additional nuances is fiendishly challenging. For those that pull off the trick like David…
French DJ and photographer Anna Hillcock has a show called Folk You on RADIO MDM in France. She made us a playlist of some of her favourite new folk artists. Lovisa Samuelsson Lovisa Samuelsson is an artist (vocals, guitar, piano, cello)…
Little Neon Limelight is the exuberant, boisterous and utterly American second album by Houndmouth, from New lbany, Indiana. It swaggers along, with its repeated theme of restless travel from State to State, during which we meet along the way jailbirds,…
Danny Green is the brains behind Laish an occasional blogger for FFS, he launched new London night ‘We Come Alive’ in 2014. Dear FFS, This Sunday is the next instalment of the We Come Alive venture, my monthly evening of…
Danny Green is the brains behind Laish an occasional blogger for FFS… Dear FFS readers, I want to share something with you. I have been invited to perform at The Union Chapel this Sunday March 7th at midday. As a…
Whether as the frontman of Super Furry Animals, through his synth concept albums with Neon Neon, recent film score work or genre-straddling collaborations with the likes of Gorillaz and Mogwai, Gruff Rhys has always displayed a pioneer spirit. Last year’s ‘American…
Hot Feet are born and bred shire folk from Stroud in the South-West of England. Their music is a real melting-pot of influences across the ages, from early delta blues, to sixties folk revival, to more modern psychedelic grooves and…
Steve Earle has covered much ground during an almost 30-year recording career and very little of it covered lightly, but this may be his first record that could genuinely be considered “fun”. That is not to say that any of…
Frontman with Joyce The Librarian, Martin Callingham steps out with a debut solo album of understated loveliness. Recorded at Bristol’s Toy Box Studios and released by Folkwit Records – and really, given our website’s name, how could we not have…
Within folk, there’s a constant and essential need to remain within the acoustic, the wooden, the real. Crossing into unfamiliar instrumental territory can often fragment a delicately antiquated and almost traditional approach to the genre. Familiar up and down the…