Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care is Luke Temple’s third solo album, which only goes to show I’ve still got a lot of catching up to do. I first heard about him through his band Here We Go Magic, and…
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Blog | Loose Ends: The Moth & The Mirror, Beck Lanehart, Hi-Fiction Science, The Fierce & The Dead
I’ve been on a mission to clear out my inbox. It’s not something I manage to do very often. Indeed, I’m approaching the two-year anniversary of the last time I found the bottom. But anyway, it turns out there were…
Album | William Elliott Whitmore – Field Songs
‘Rootsy’ is a term that gets used a lot in describing that certain kind of Americana that draws heavily on rural country blues, evoking cotton fields and dustbowls. But if it’s actually possible to hear earth, soil, you can hear…
Album | BOBBY – Bobby
From the moment FFS first laid ears on the opening bars, something of an obsession not only with the song but with all things BOBBY has developed.
The loose musical collective was strung together by Vermont musicial Tom Greenberg – and features Molly Sarle and Amelia Meath from the delicious Mountain Man
Album: Zervas & Peppers – Somewhere In The City
Does anyone fancy a trip through their parents record collection? Zervas & Peppers wear their influences on their sleeve, so it won’t take you long listening to this to realise that said influences are Fleetwood Mac, CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell and…
EP: Matthew P – The Breakfast EP
You won’t go mistaking Matthew P’s records for any of the other Americana bands who fit in to the same wistful bracket. For while his music recalls the straightforward ease of the Wood Brothers and others who dwell somewhere between…
EP: Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me A Tale
I need to go and see Michael Kiwanuka in person. Only then might I believe he exists, at least in the form we’re told of. Surely it’s more plausible that, rather than being a 23-year-old Londoner, he’s now an aging…
PJ Harvey films to be screened at UK festivals
UK festival goers will be able to see the series of short films created by Seamus Murphy to accompany each song on PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake on the big screen this summer. The 12 films will be screened together…
Other Lives release ‘For 12’ video
Oklahoma’s Other Lives are preparing to unleash sophomore album Tamer Animals – their first proper release in the UK – later this summer, and whet our appetites with the dreamy ‘For 12’, which comes equipped with this rather lavish space-based…
Album: Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down
When Mumford & Sons recommend a 20-year-old banjo picker who is already on to her second album, it’s got to be worth a look. And so we found Texan Sarah Jarosz who brings us the rather fine Follow Me Down.…