George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass was a monster of an album is almost every sense. First unleashed on the world in November 1970 as a triple LP, marrying Harrison’s beautiful compositions with Phil Spector’s wall of sound, it arrived…
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Album | Marthas & Arthurs – The Hit World of…Marthas & Arthurs
Marthas and Arthurs sound exactly like you’d expect them to. Well, as long as your basing your preconceptions on their name, and not on their CVs. If we told you two of them used to make electro-noise, then you’d have…
News | Emmy The Great, Lucy Rose added to Truck Festival line-up
Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006,…
Album | Megan Reilly – The Well
We weren’t remotely familiar with Megan Reilly until first hearing ‘Sew The Theads Into Your Heart’ and falling for it pretty much straight away. That means we can’t do anything like tell you where this album might sit alongside the…
Interview | Smoke Fairies introduce new album Blood Speaks
As they prepare to release new album Blood Speaks next month, FFS spoke to Smoke Fairies Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies about the new album and the role of tea in the songwriting process. FFS: The new record sounds punchier,…
Record Store Day | RSD 2012 easily the biggest yet
This FFS scribe is still trying to get back on a vaguely regular sleep patten following an all-nighter outside Piccadilly Records but already some of the figures are in for Record Store Day 2012 and it proved to be comfortably…
Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide
With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by…
Record Store Day | Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea: home of the iconic art deco De La Warr Pavilion, a magnificent century-old seafront colonnade, quaint beach huts, and a huge retirement community. Not the most obvious place to open up a new record store. But that is exactly…
EP | MayMay – MayMay
What began as songwriter Laural Simmons’ idea to send a message to her friends and family back home in Arizona has turned into Portland’s latest emerging folk act, MayMay. Their five-track debut EP is a brief but engaging collection of…
Album | Sennen – Lost Harmony
For their third album, Sennen retreated to a North London studio while last year’s riots raged around them, but on Lost Harmony they found calm within the storm. Their subtle melodies and rhythms are understated, tranquil, but almost hypnotic, carrying…