Your average folk group does not come together by bonding over soul music and hip hop, but then Take Berlin are not your average folk group. Yvonne and Jesse first met back in 2011, forming a musical bond that has…
Mara Simpson calls Watamu, Wellington, Berlin and Brighton home, which might explain why her sound is so difficult to pin down. Big, soulful vocals play out over a blend of folk and blues, while she uses her unique background to…
Radical Face, AKA Ben Cooper, will release The Family Tree: The Leaves next week, the third and final instalment in his Family Tree series which has documented the lives of a fictional family spanning over a century (The Roots was…
If you find yourself frustrated by a sense that the ‘folk’ label has been snatched by more and more mainstream artists and twisted into something bland and unadventurous, a catch-all label for anything with an acoustic guitar, how do you…
Fans of Stealing Sheep and others may be familiar with this chap from a handful of support slots around the UK, but for the uninitiated, allow us to introduce southern California’s Gonzalla. Actually a chap named Cody, Gonzalla grew up…
What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…
Those of you who followed the FFS Advent Calendar will remember Mairearad Green’s track ‘Blessing On Tanera‘ as one of the many treats included, and now the release of her debut album Summer Isles is just about upon us. Mairearad’s…
Eric Taylor Escudero may have been born in Brazil but there is a distinct English flavour to his debut album We Were Young And It Was Morning, on which he plays an array of instruments – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, concertina,…
Are you a budding writer and keen music fan? FFS is looking for eager folks to join our team of writers. Whether you fancy writing album reviews, live reviews, or breaking that cardinal rule and meeting your heroes as part…
Having met in 2013 when recording a Lead Belly cover, Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini quickly bonded and began work writing and recording together. The fruits of those labours can be heard on their new EP Desert Songs, and to…