FFS favourite Darren Hayman has released The Shit Piano a re-recording of his recent album The Ship’s Piano – which our Tom Moyser called “slow, delicate, piano-led, romantic, nostalgic and whimsical. And, above all else, brilliant.” – in just one day and using only Casio keyboards.
Darren said: “I tried to use the limitation of the Casios to find new and interesting readings of the songs. The album definitely isn’t ‘shit’ on purpose.”
We’re huge fans of streaming website, Daytrotter at FFS, they make recordings that quite often sound better than the bands’ albums. Very excitingly, they’ve teamed up with Communion Records (started by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons and Kev Jones)…
A film about Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show’s railroad trip across America will be debuted at SXSW. Big Easy Express documents the Railroad Revival Tour the bands embarked on in April…
The lovely Fránçois & the Atlas Mountain have put together a gorgeous cover of the Slow Club track Gold Mountain, and Slow Club are due to repay the favour. Listen here: Slow Club’s Rebecca said of the cover: “I really…
Austrian Anja Plaschg has announced the release of a new mini-album on March 19th. Self-played and produced, Narrow follows Soap&Skin’s debut album Lovetune for Vacuum, which was released in 2009. The record features ‘Vater’, a song about her father, who…
The Leisure Society announced this week that Dan Michaelson will support them on their forthcoming UK tour. The tour, which begins this month, will see the band play eight dates in the UK and Ireland. Wednesday 15th February @ Norwich,…
Fresh from a Christmas that we like to think looked exactly like this, Emmy the Great has announced a string of live appearances. Emmy will play 4 dates in mainland Europe this month, and a one-off London show in…
Wanna hear the new Shins song that folks have been raving about? The new track ‘Simple Song’ sees the band back on form for their forthcoming album Port of Morrow after frontman James Mercer’s time out to work on his…
Laura Marling has today launched an interactive website featuring a poem and artwork inspired by her song ‘The Beast’, taken from her third album A Creature I Don’t Know. The poem is narrated by Gil Landry from Old Crow Medicine…
First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLK FANS! I hope you’re reading this full up and content. Secondly, I’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has contributed to, bought and supported For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011.…