Helen True: Isobel Anderson and Ruby Colley met when each was playing as part of separate acts on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury in 2011. Two years on, they’ve released their first EP, which collects together three reinterpretations of well-loved folk…
Minko is an ethereal singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Cornwall, England, who has been known to veer between techno and folk, seeing no divide between the two. On this EP, Minko embraces the latter- but what does the New…
Cannibal King isn’t the kind of EP title you get on this website all that often… it might even be the first time that a title about eating human flesh has ever appeared on FFS (Not quite! See here). Anyway, when Yesper,…
Spinning tales steeped in lust, murder and betrayal, Men’s Adventures take their inspiration from “broken hearts, fiction and fantasy” and, suited and booted in get up straight off the set of The Good, The Bad & the Ugly, have recently been spotted bringing…
Although many of our readers will outright refuse to believe human beings born in 1997 actually exist, they do. And luckily some of them have the talent of Lily Mae, a precocious folk singer songwriter from the US of A.…
London born and Manchester raised folk troubadour Sam Sallon has been making music ever since he was a wee laddy, supporting Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, Pete Doherty and tthe likes of Johnny Flynn, Fionn Regan and Lucy Rose in…
Factories and Alleyways are a roots/Americana band from Vancouver that draw influences from country, rock, folk and gospel, whilst “taking their cues” from the likes of The Band, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, and Whiskeytown, they…
This week our writers get their heads around the intriguing prospect of Belgian four-piece BRNS (pronounced ‘brains’), who veer between all kinds of different styles. Could they be Belgium’s answer to Alt-J? Here’s what FFS has to say…. Rosy Ross: I…
This week three of our writers have eyed up London-based two-piece Light Falls Forward, who met at a house party and immediately bonded over Derren Brown and biscuits. They moved in with each other, decided to write music together and…
This week it’s the turn of electronic-folk upstarts Mt. Wolf to go under the folk microscope. Based in London, each member was born by the sea, on the coasts of Guernsey, Dorset and Brighton. Prepare to get swept away…. Joanne Rowe: Hailing…