Now we at For Folk’s Sake love Christmas as much as anyone. Every year we count the days to dust off A Charlie Brown Christmas and pull on the cosiest woolly jumper we can find. But few can deny the…
Premiere | Dom Major – Christmas Cards
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Premiere | Café Spice – Lauren
Café Spice have been charming their home city of Manchester for a while now, building up a fine reputation with live performances of their beautiful harmonies and sweet tunes. And now the trio – made up of Georgia Gage, Eleanor…
Video premiere | Stanlaey – The Mountain Collector
“We thrive when we are in harmony with our natural environment,” says Bethany Stenning, aka Stanlaey. “‘The Mountain Collector’ explores overcoming negative emotions through union with nature.” ‘The Mountain Collector’ is the second single from Stanlaey’s upcoming album The Human…
Video premiere | Malojian – Beard Song
Getting your album on the shortlist for the Northern Irish Music Prize is a big deal. So big that if you’re Malojian (aka Stephen Scullion), you might suddenly find a massive mural of yourself painted on the side of the…
Interview | Anonymous in the city: Visiting Vienna with Soap&Skin
“Stubenhocker? How do you say this?” Anja Plaschg searches for the word while needlessly apologising for her English. Homebird? “Yes,” she agrees. “I’m a homebird.” As she prepares to release her third studio album as Soap&Skin, we’ve asked Anja to…
Premiere | You Tell Me – Invisible Ink
It began at a Kate Bush concert. Field Music’s Peter Brewis met solo artist and Admiral Fallow member Sarah Hayes, and everything clicked. “I’d been an admirer of Field Music for a good while before meeting Peter at the gig,…
Premiere | Micah P. Hinson – The Sleep of the Damned
There is an immediacy to these times, times when the sense of order so long known feels under threat. It’s an immediacy felt by Micah P. Hinson, who poured out his feelings when he recorded his new album When I…
Video Premiere | Anne Marie Almedal – You Keep Me At Arm’s Length
Norwegian songwriter Anne Marie Almedal is set to release her fourth solo album, and first in more than five years, next month with Lightshadow due out on October 26th. The new record brings a fresh new sound for this beguiling…
Interview | Alessi’s Ark returns with ‘Devant Moi’
Alessi’s Ark is back with the release of new single ‘Devant Moi’. And it marks a departure for Alessi Laurent-Marke, who sings entirely in French, a mother tongue for the Hammersmith-born artist. What’s more, the single has been released via…
Album | Adam’s House Cat – Town Burned Down
It seems like most things the Drive-By Truckers do have a story, and usually a damn good one. Town Burned Down, the only album recorded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley’s pre-DBT band Adam’s House Cat, is no exception. Originally…