Two years after the 2010 demise of his band Supergrass, Gaz Coombes brought us his debut Here Come The Bombs, a record which moved into his own head space in a way that was never really possible with Supergrass, while…
Album | Gaz Coombes – Matador
Category: Records
Album | The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Decemberists might be pushed to beat their own mid-00s output, but this is a band that has stayed true to their roots and continue to make compelling folk music. Their new record comes exactly four years since The King…
Album | Diagrams – Chromatics
Diagrams is the latest project of Sam Genders, previously of Tunng, but for me Chromatics is sharper and more interesting than Tunng’s more diffuse work. ‘Phantom Power’ starts out jaunty, gently articulate, all Belle-&-Sebastian-eqsue, rattling along like a red bicycle with a bell…
Premiere: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman – Child Owlet
For Folk’s Sake are proud to premiere the brand new video from Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman today as the duo make a spectacular return with ‘Child Owlet,’ a a traditional ballad from the revered Child Ballad collection. The track…
EP | Los Campesinos! – A Los Campesinos! Christmas
Los Campesinos! are a band that can do no wrong. Since the release of ‘Hold on Now, Youngster’, way back in 2007, the band has gone on to make four further LPs, and a smattering of EPs released through bi-annual…
Album | Beans on Toast – The Grand Scheme of Things
Beans on Toast can be an acquired taste. I don’t mean the light lunchtime snack – most of us have enjoyed that since childhood – but the singer-songwriter. His lo-fi folky ramblings come with pretty basic vocal stylings, an overwhelmingly…
Album | Cariad Harmon – Cariad Harmon
English-born with a Welsh name (Cariad means ‘love’), and living in Brooklyn. It provides an eclectic background which is clear to hear in Cariad Harmon’s excellent self-titled effort. Before we get to Harmon’s warm, expressive voice, her supreme guitar work…
Album | Jim Noir – Finnish Line
Two years between albums tends to be a perfectly reasonable turnaround for most artists, but for Jim Noir it feels like an unnecessarily long delay. After all this is the man who released 13, yes that’s right 13, EP’s during…
Buy a single and save a life with The Portraits!
I first stumbled across The Portraits at the Small World solar tent at Glastonbury 2013 – admittedly I was hiding from the rain but half an hour (and a lot of personal peddling and bubble blowing) later and I was…
Wilco Revisited | Alpha Mike Foxtrot & What’s Your 20? Reviewed
Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 ——————————————- What’s Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014 The end of 2014 gives us a grand old gift from one of America’s very finest. For those who love Wilco comes the definitive and essential rarities…