Author: Ian Parker

Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.

#484 Jacko Hooper – Egg Shells

Brighton-based artist Jacko Hooper releases his For You EP this very day. His Tom McRae-esque voice is front and centre of the four-track EP, as you will gather from the lead single ‘Egg Shells’. For You is the first official…

#481 The Barr Brothers – Even The Darkness Has Arms

To this song goes the honour. ‘Even The Darkness Has Arms’ is the first song every to be our Song of the Day TWICE. But when we featured it last September, we took a live version from a Seattle radio…

Album | The Secret Sisters – Put Your Needle Down

Three years ago, the Secret Sisters arrived with their thoroughly charming self-titled debut. Putting their blood harmonies to devastating effect, they whistled through an array of country standards while offering only two of their own compositions. The fact that one…

#456 Suntrapp – Silhouettes

If you list your key influences as Neil Young and the Beach Boys, you’re pretty much conspiring to target us here at FFS (Or at least most of us). So it’s no surprise that we keep coming back to tracks…

#454 Pocket Satellite – This Town

‘This Town’ is the opening track from 8-bit Me, the new EP from five-piece Pocket Satellite, who divide their time between London and Sheffield. While the song is plenty of fun, they’ve also devised a belting game to play while…

#453 Anna McIvor – Augusta

Augusta EP by Anna McIvor Anna McIvor originally hails from Derry in Northern Ireland but has formed many of her musical ideas while living and performing in London and Paris. It was in the latter that she wrote ‘Augusta’, the…

#451 Tacks, The Boy Disaster – Treasure Hunters

Tacks, The Boy Disaster hail from Austin, Texas, where they have finally finished work on their debut album, Twelve Lion Paws. We say finally – consider that their Oh Beatrice EP came out in 2006, a mere eight years ago…

Pictures | Mark Eitzel @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

Mark Eitzel’s European tour took him to the special setting of Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion on Sunday night for a show put on in conjunction with our friends at Music’s Not Dead. With the sun going down over a…

#449 Lotte Mullan – I Hope It Breaks Your Heart

‘I Hope It Breaks Your Heart’ is not simply the name of the lead single from Lotte Mullan’s Claw Marks EP, it seems to be her mission statement. A slightly abrasive tactic for a new artist in trying to win…