Category: New Bands Panel

#583 Exclusive | Sean O’Neill – I Know You Worry

It’s not often you hear a folk musician cite Philip Glass as one of his main influences, so you know Sean O’Neill is going to offer something a bit different. This is not different for the sake of it though…

New Bands Panel | Isobel Anderson & Ruby Colley – The Sussex Sessions EP

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…

New Bands Panel | Minko – Songs 1-4 (Sybil Of Delphi) EP

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…

New Bands Panel | Yesper – Cannibal King EP

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,…

New Bands Panel | Men’s Adventures – Blood Bride Sessions EP

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…

NEW BANDS PANEL | FACTORIES AND ALLEYWAYS – FACTORIES AND ALLEYWAYS EP

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…

New Bands Panel | BRNS – Wounded

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…