FFS favourite Hannah Peel has been working away in London to add an electronic pulse to her folky sounds, and she’s ready to bring us the results. Her Fabricstate EP will drop in late February, but before then we get…
#299 Hannah Peel – Silk Road
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#298 | Frightened Rabbit – Boxing Night
FFS Song of the Day | The Mormon Tabernacle Choir – Carol of the Bells
FFS Advent Calendar Door 24 | The Crystals – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
He is, kids. He’s on his way. A very Merry Christmas to everyone from all at For Folk’s Sake.
FFS Advent Calendar Door 21 | Bob Dylan – It Must Be Santa
If Door 20 revealed a Christmas album which made perfect sense from the moment it was first conceived, Door 21 hides one that took a little more getting used to. Dylan’s rambunctious, often ramshackle Christmas In The Heart fell short…
FFS Advent Calendar Door 20 | She & Him – Blue Christmas
Not every band can pull off a Christmas album, but from the moment She & Him announced the release of 2011’s A Very She & Him Christmas you knew it was going to make sense – with Zooey Deschanel’s outstanding…
FFS Advent Calendar Door 18 | The Vince Guaraldi Trio – Christmas Time Is Here
There is no occasion, no moment, no second of the day that cannot be improved by Peanuts. Christmas is no different, and we would suggest that the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas should be a staple…
FFS Advent Calendar Door 16 | Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler – Home For the Holidays
High on the list of our favourite recent releases designed to be listened to while wearing a Christmas jumper is Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler’s ‘This Is Christmas’. Like Santa on a deadline, it whizzes between twee fireside tunes…
FFS Advent Calendar Door 13 | Jesse Malin – Fairytale of New York
British fans may have missed this one, which only appeared on the US edition of his covers album On Your Sleeve, but Jesse Malin has always loved a song about his hometown so he teamed up with Bree Sharp to…
FFS Advent Calendar Door Seven | Richard Hawley – Silent Night
There’s nothing Richard Hawley can’t do. Because if you can perform ‘Silent Night’ this brilliantly inside the Devil’s Arse*, you can do anything. *Note: This is, in fact, a cave just south of Hawley’s home town of the Sheffield, and…