Well this is a find and a half. Hailing from South East London, Penniless Cove may still be largely unknown on the folk circuit but that should change soon – preferably in the next 5 minutes – if this…
#74 Penniless Cove – Monsoon Rain
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Festivals | The Great Escape – Preview
The British summer may be getting off to a non-existent start but summery things are happening – English weather be damned – starting with one of our favourite festivals of the year, The Great Escape. Champion of the little guy,…
#72 Junip – Your Life Your Call
Hot from the newly-released, eponymous record, ‘Suddenly’ is Junip at their best – futuristic, Kraftwerky synths layered with José González’s delicate guitar picking and a Casio coconut beat. What other band could mix those sounds with such great results? None, that’s…
Interview | Alessi comes full circle – FFS favourite, Alessi’s Ark, on new album The Still Life
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a…
#66 Jenny Hval – Blood Flight
Stand-out track from Hval’s 2011 album, Viscera, ‘Blood Flight’ is a pulsing, menacing meditation on the body and its senses. Throughout, the vocal alternates between an anguished spoken word tone and freewheeling singing voice, building to a neurotic climax two-thirds…
Interview | Introducing…Evening Hymns
Similarities between Evening Hymns and Bon Iver are abundant. On the recently released Spectral Dusk, sonic layers build over muted, military beats and the beauty is in each carefully crafted detail. The record was even recorded in a log cabin…
Interview | Introducing…Hoshal Patrick
Strictly speaking, we’ve already introduced Hoshal Patrick, the delightfully dreamy duo with the air of a very chilled-out Smiths about them – check out the very favourable reviews from our New Bands Panel. Find out a bit more about the boys…
Album | Jenny Hval – Innocence is Kinky
With 2011 album, Viscera, Jenny Hval achieved a surprising hit, garnering generally favourable – if slightly perplexed – reviews, and a spot in Uncut’s ‘Top 50 Albums Of 2011’. ‘Surprising’(particularly for boys club, Uncut) because Viscera was an experimental, part-spoken…
#56 Fred’s House – Fine Life
We first saw Fred’s House almost two years ago supporting Sea of Bees when they were more positive and upbeat than a children’s TV presenter on MDMA. Since then someone must have stolen their cookies, for Fred’s House have got…
Interview | Introducing…Gavin James
Having spent much of the last three years playing residencies in Dublin pubs – our idea of heaven, really – Gavin James is now sharing his prodigious talent with the rest of the world. Debut EP, Say Hello, entered the Irish iTunes…