After lending her voice to projects including but not limited to The National’s Boxer, J.P. Nataf’s Claire and a set of Talking Heads songs on French television, Mina Tindle is ready to strike out on her own. The Parisian is…
Author: Ian Parker
Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.
Live | Hannah Peel @ Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
With mulled wines in hand, the people of Leeds have packed into the pews of the Holy Trinity Church to hear one of their own deliver the annual Christmas service from the local Gaslight Club. Well, nearly. Hannah introduces herself…
Blog | New music from Allo Darlin’, Foxes!, We Are Augustines, Jess Morgan & The Bandana Splits
Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a…
Album | The Lowland Hundred – Adit
An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
Album | King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…
Album | AA Bondy – Believers
AA Bondy’s third album Believers opens with the pounding beat of ‘The Heart Is Willing’ and straight away it seems to immediately lay down a marker that this is going to be a more powerful, more direct record than those…
Exclusive | Musical Charis debut new video
It’s easy to forget how much fun water balloons can be. Or, as winter draws in, what the sun looks like. But Musical Charis are here to remind us. The former New Bands Panel favourites have handed us the UK…
News | Bowerbirds offer download as preview to new album
Bowerbirds will return with a new album The Clearing in March next year and have given us a preview with a free download of ‘Tuck The Darkness In’. The band headed north to Wisconsin to record parts of their third…
News | Laura Marling announces UK tour in March
Laura Marling is to head out for a second major UK tour in support of her third album A Creature I Don’t Know with a string of dates lined up for March 2012. Where her October tour was a series…
News | Cocos Lovers to release second album in March
It is with much excitement that we today learn FFS favourites Cocos Lovers will give a full release to their second album Elephant Lands on March 19th, 2012. The record is the follow-up to 2009 debut Johannes, which earned glowing…