The former drummer of the Felice Brothers and the brains behind The Duke & the King, Simone Felice’s first solo record arrives weighted with expectation. There are moments of the brilliance of both outfits in this eponymous debut, recorded with…
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Album | Deer Tick – Divine Providence (and Tim EP)
Rhode Island is no doubt meant to be a clarion call to their youth, a reliving of the bad old days of getting drunk, picking up chicks and telling stories about it afterwards.
Album | Shearwater – Animal Joy
Whilst not as dense or treacle-thick as previous Shearwater records, Animal Joy is just as intricately layered, and manages to be peculiarly exhilerating in spite of its persistently shadowy subject matter. Opener ‘Animal Life’ anchors the album’s loose thread of…
Album | Seeker Lover Keeper – Seeker Lover Keeper
There will always be a place in my heart for keening melodies played on acoustic guitar, and soaring close-harmony vocals. Some might baulk that music like this fails to push boundaries: others, the folk purists, (generally the most militant of…
Album | Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
If Justin Townes Earle’s young career reached its peak to date with 2010’s Harlem River Blues, the follow-up offers us a note of caution. For all the fine work he’d done in separating himself from the considerable burdens that follow…
EP | Loch Lomond – White Dresses
Six months on from the UK release of Little Me Will Start A Storm, Chemikal Underground asked Portland’s Loch Lomond to record a short EP of fresh material to help push their European tour. Maybe they expected something simple to…
EP | Poor Moon – Illusion
The constituent members of Fleet Foxes come from such a rich heritage of previous bands, solo efforts and general musical immersion that it seems a little disingenuous to call Poor Moon a side project, not least because two of the…
EP | Sam Airey – A Marker And A Map
A Marker And A Map is a fitting title for Sam Airey’s latest EP, as it is analogous to the many journeys that he finds himself on throughout the record. From hesitant ramblings to shrewd lyrical observations, Airey is candid…
EP | Daniel Rossen – Silent Hour/Golden Mile
It’s easy to see Daniel Rossen’s career output as a series of fractions – a quarter of him lies in Grizzly Bear’s work, a half in Department of Eagles – so it seems fitting that his ever-increasing influence has led…
Album | Thomas White – Yalla
“No-one does hippy love with a bite like Tom White,” claimed the press release for this album, to much amusement at FFS Towers. Once it became clear I wasn’t being accused of deviant behaviour (this time), I tucked into this…