The first single off James Vincent McMorrow’s January 2014 release Post Tropical, ‘Cavalier’ is a chill, falsetto memorial to a first love that’s well and truly over. The shattered-sounding vocal, which fills the space of the song with chest-aching loss…
Dancing years are from Leeds, and we wouldn’t be surprised if everyone thinks they’re cool by the end of the week. This is their debut single, released today on local label Hide & Seek. ‘Here’s to my old friends’ has all…
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113661176″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Whistling, a little light tinkling on the ivories and a Matrix-style musing on the dreamlike qualities of love and death make ‘Death is Like a Dream We’ll Have’ simultaneously lighthearted and sad.…
RM Hubbert, or ‘Hubby’ as he prefers to introduce himself, is a substantial tattooed fellah from Glasgow who plays utterly beautiful, delicate guitar, sometimes with, sometimes without gently murmured lyrics. Winner of the Scottish Album of the Year Award for…
Today is Stuart Murdoch’s birthday, and although Wikipedia is more or less adamant that he’s turning 45, we all know that he’s really nineteen, scribbling in exercise books and pining away as he gazes out the window of a Glasgow…
Storytelling’s pretty key to what we like here at FFS, and opting out of words mainly seems like a waste of time that could be spent having your heart broken by Caitlin Rose, or mended by Johnny Flynn. In spite…
Watching Johnny Flynn live is a lot like spending the afternoon with your grandma. Take, for example, his confusion when playing a brand new song to ‘more than three people’ for the first time. Upon beginning, a man at the…
Rebecca Taylor, one half of Slow Club, tweeted this morning to indicate in really rather strong terms that the band will be playing Notting Hill Arts Club this evening. Say if we played at 9.15 tonight at Notting Hill Arts…
Wilsen recently recorded this live version of ‘House On A Hill’ at the ‘we’re very serious about music, we are’ Electric Lady studios in Greenwich Village and threw it into the internet last week. Utterly beautiful single ‘Dusk‘ featured as Song of the…
We remember when these four were barely out of short trousers, playing teensy tiny gigs in the backrooms of West London pubs and getting confused about shorthand. Now look at them, kicking Michael Bublé off the number one spot in…