Australian trio Cameras have certainly announced their arrival with their debut album In Your Room. Having received many plaudits in their hometown, the band is sure to gain many more fans in this country thanks to this. They set the…
Category: Records
Album | Aimee Mann – Charmer
It’s nearly twenty years since Aimee Mann released her debut studio album and just over a decade since her work on the Magnolia soundtrack brought her music to a much wider audience. Nowadays she is a considered a veteran of…
Album | Wild Nothing – Nocturne
Jack Tatum began recording under the pseudonym Wild Nothing in summer of 2009, was signed to Captured Tracks that year and it was all up from there. After its cornucopia of critical praise, Wild Nothing’s debut album Gemini was always…
Album | Dylan LeBlanc – Cast The Same Old Shadow
Two years ago, Dylan LeBlanc’s debut album Pauper’s Field left us all wondering how something so world weary come come from a 20-year-old. Listening to his follow-up album it seems the Louisianan has found a way to do even more…
Album | Dollboy – Further Excursions Into The Ulu With Dollboy
Dollboy is the extravagantly bearded Oliver Cherer, formerly of Cooler, armed with a synthesizer alongside a host of more “traditional”, “folky” instruments. He has been performing under this moniker since the late 1990s and released two instrumental albums – including…
News | New Houndmouth EP – Exclusive Stream!
It’s not often FFS gets to use ‘Exclusive!’ like a red-top newspaper, but we’re very happy to announce an exclusive link to the debut EP by Kentucky newcomers, Houndmouth. Less soulful but bluesier and more hard-bitten than label buddies, Alabama…
Live | Dark Dark Dark @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
They’re not always nice or easy, but there’s no question we’ve been treated to some fantastic break-up albums over the past couple of years. Noah & The Whale’s The First Days of Spring, Josh T. Pearson’s The Last of the…
Album | Bard – The Springtime Fool
London is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s stifling. What you need is some perfect summer folk pop, right? How about local boys and girls Bard and their debut album The Springtime Fool? This is beautiful summery stuff, with tunes…
Listen | Dark Dark Dark’s ‘How It Went Down’
Two years on from the beautiful Wild Go, Dark Dark Dark will return in October with their third full-length albm Who Needs Who. Since we last heard from them, singer Nona Marie Invie and the band’s co-founder Marshall LaCount have…
Singles Round-up | James Yorkston, Kyla La Grange, Cellophane Flowers, Shambles Miller
James Yorkston- Border Song James Yorkston may be a folk musician but on this song he shows his early punk background. The words spill out as fast as he can manage to spit them. This isn’t pastoral folk, this is…