And on it goes. Following swiftly on from the first part of our buying guide, here is more tasty goodness from the RSD list. Martin Carthy – Martin Carthy. LP – £18.99. Limited to 750. Martin Carthy’s groundbreaking debut LP…
Record Store Day is here again! After last year’s mammoth list of 643 exclusive releases, organisers have taken concerns on board and produced a much leaner list of, uhm, 592. Still need help picking through it? FFS picks out the…
You wonder if Laura Marling has ever stood still. From the moment she released her first EP at the somewhat impatient age of 17 everything she has done has been a progression, a departure, a new set of ideas. With…
On Monday Smoke Fairies will release their alternative Christmas record Wild Winter, and FFS can bring you a first listen to album track ‘Give And Receive’. Wild Winter is being sold exclusively through Rough Trade, and is available in-store or…
Gather round close. The warm glow of the Barr Brothers’ long-awaited second LP burns like the family room fireplace. Three years in the making, Sleeping Operator is a meticulously prepared piece of art, an hour-long meditation which can transport you…
If you were wondering what to get music fans for Christmas this year, wonder no longer. Smoke Fairies have announced they will be releasing Wild Winter, their first Christmas album, on December 8 via Rough Trade’s record stores and download.…
Golden Fable released their second album Ancient Blue next week, a set of euphoric cinematic soundscapes built around lush instrumentation and the other worldly voice of Rebecca Palin. To coincide with the record’s release, the band are issuing a digital…
The Lost Brothers have made a habit of producing eye-catching videos and the new cut for latest single ‘Spanish Reprise’ is no exception. Put together by Zoe Genders and Melvyn Ternan, the video combines beautiful photography with quirky animation to…
It’s one of the great tragedies that afflicts American society. Gun violence, and the number of innocent victims caught up in it, seems like a storyline that will never go away. That is why Caroline Rose chose to tackle the…
Regular FFS readers will have heard of Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton before. Holly was one of our picks in the 2011 Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition, and we’ve already reviewed some of her releases with Chris. But now it’s time…