This is the Kit’s debut album Wriggle Out the Restless was released last October, and quickly became a favourite here at FFS. Our reviewer Becky Varley-Winter said: “It’s apt that Wriggle Out The Restless is released by Dreamboat Records, as…
Author: Lynn Roberts
Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.
Listen now | Slow Club – Paradise
Slow Club’s second album, Paradise is released on 12th September (or FFSmas, as it’ll soon come to be known). The London-via-Sheffield duo recorded the album in Hackney with producer Luke Smith. You can hear it in full on the NME…
Listen now | Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
Laura Marling’s hotly-anticipated 3rd album is out on 12th September, and it’s live on the Guardian website to listen to in full. Titled A Creature I Don’t Know, it’s Laura’s first album with her own band – the Mumford boys…
Listen now | St Vincent – Strange Mercy
St Vincent is yet another brilliant artist releasing a record on 12th September (there are albums from Laura Marling, Slow Club and Peggy Sue out the same day). We love love love Annie Clark here at FFS, and this album…
FFS Schmercury best album prize: Vote now!
The Secret Sisters, The Leisure Society, Emmy the Great, Middle Brother, Fleet Foxes, The Low Anthem, Devon Sproule, Wye Oak, Dark Dark Dark, Mechanical Bride, Rachael Dadd, This is the Kit. Who made your favourite album of the last year?
Best album poll: It’s the Schmercuries 2011
On the eve of the Mercury poll, FFS have put together a list of our 12 favourite folk-tinged albums of the past year for our very own Schmercury prize. We’re going to do things a little differently this year, and…
News | Laura Veirs announces follow up to July Flame
Laura Veirs’ July Flame was one of FFS’s favourite albums of last year. And as if her feminist-punk past didn’t leave us fully smitten. Laura’s superwoman-style touring – first uberpregnant and then with baby Tennessee in tow – gave us…
News | Midlake announce tiny London show
We had to check this news three times to be sure… Midlake have announced a show on Thursday at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in East London. Tickets are £22.50 + booking fee from Stargreen, and go on sale at…
Listen | New Treetop Flyers single ‘It’s About Time’
Glastonbury talent competition winners Treetop Flyers will release their new single ‘It’s About Time’ through Communion Records on 18th September. It’s a hit of 70s-inspired pop rock that wouldn’t feel out of place on a Laurel Canyon compilation. See what…
Exclusive | Stream Tuesday from Paper Aeroplanes’ new EP
Paper Aeroplanes have announced the release of a new EP ‘A Comfortable Sleep’ on September 16th. Paper Aeroplanes is the project of Sarah Howells (posessor of one of the loveliest pop voices around – who also sings with Al Lewis)…