The most surprising fact about Farewell Jr’s debut Health EP is that it was recorded in part in Cambridge, Ireland and Australia. Surprising not for the fact that what began as Nick Rayner’s Cambridge-based solo project has so rapidly grown,…
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EP | The Golden Troubadours – Beautiful Revolving Jane
You could spend a long time listening to the Golden Troubadours trying to figure out where they come from. In the space of this short EP, their second, they seem to go around the world with a mix of latin…
EP | I Said Yes – I Said Yes
Noel Gallagher can be a grumpy old git. Apparently, among the many things he has taken against – including Liam Gallagher, Christmas, and, perhaps justifiably, bands that say yes to charity gigs and then pull out – the music of…
Album | Clara Luzia – We Are Fish
If the name Clara Luzia doesn’t immediately mean much to you, you’re probably not alone on these shores. But in her native Austria, she’s something of a fixture as she returns with this, her fifth album. In 2008, after two…
Album | Mount Moriah – Miracle Temple
While many look down on country as an antiquated genre, meant for tapping cowboy boots and grizzly ranchers (though of course not here at FFS), Mount Moriah, with Miracle Temple, might well have created an album with just enough country…
Album | Larkin Poe and Thom Hell – The Sound of the Ocean Sound
If ever a genre was in need of a spark of new blood, it’s country music. Sometimes it can feel a little like a museum piece: all nods and winks to the past and rigid adherence to a pre-defined structure.…
EP | Soap&Skin – Sugarbread
You know when you put a Soap&Skin record on that things are about to get unsettling it and so it is that ‘Sugarbread’, the title track of her new EP, opens up with the muffled sounds of screaming layered over…
Premiere | Songs For Walter – Family Hold Back
Manchester’s family man Laurie Hulme, aka Songs For Walter, is off to a fine start in 2013. Already longlisted for Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent competition, he’s now releasing a single every month until the summer, when he plans to compile them…
EP | Joe Banfi – Nomads
Where Joe Banfi’s last EP Iron felt like a conscious effort to show off the Northwich man’s full range in four short songs, there is no such pressure affecting the follow-up Nomads. Instead, Communion’s next big thing seems to be…
Album | John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
Last year, in front of an audience of people on the south bank of the river Thames, John Grant came out for the second time in his life. The first time he came out it had been as homosexual –…