Author: Ian Parker

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

#91 Eloise Rees – Fire With Fire

Eloise Rees describes herself as “a small blonde singer-songwriter with a helium voice” but we think she might be being a little hard on herself. Sure, there’s something a little bit like playing an LP at 45rpm about her vocals…

#89 Marcus Corbett – In Deed

In Deed by Marcus Corbett Something just a little bit different today in the form of a new record from Marcus Corbett, who has put his love of India at the forefront of his music. ‘In Deed’ is taken from…

Listen | Debut album from Field Report

In his review earlier this week, Max Raymond described the debut album from Field Report – a band put together by Justin Vernon’s former bandmate Chris Porterfield – as ‘captivating’ in their blend of a ‘warm, gorgeous aesthetic and Porterfield’s…

EP | Sarah Hayes – Mainspring

When Louis Abbott was explaining how Admiral Fallow’s second album had come to have on it so many new sounds, he told us it was because his bandmates continued to surprise him with their array of abilities. And just in…

#86 Peter Bruntnell ft. Rumer – Played Out

Peter Bruntnell’s career, which features nine studio albums to date, is to be treated to a retrospective next month and to give us a tease he’s put out a reworked version of 2004 track ‘Played Out’, with a helping hand…

#83 Keston Cobblers’ Club – Beam

We pretty much love Keston Cobblers’ Club. Their music is utterly infectious. If you don’t actually get up and dance, you’ll at least be tapping away. Stop reading this and just press play.

#81 Beck Lanehart – Last Man Down

If anybody’s been watching Nashville (which is mainly worth sticking with for the music – or at least most of the music) then Beck Lanehart’s ‘Last Man Down’ is exactly the kind of thing you might expect one of the…

Album | She & Him – Volume 3

We’re guessing it wasn’t a long meeting between M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel before they settled on the title Volume 3 for this, their, uhm, third collection of 60s-tinged pop. But it wasn’t just the title that was inevitable about…

#79 Ane Brun – This Voice 2013

Ane Brun will next week release her career retrospective Songs 2003-2013 and is marking the occasion with a re-recording of ‘This Voice’, which originally appeared on her 2005 record A Temporary Dive. The once gentle song has been reimagined as…