This debut offering from Ben Calvert and crew is an accomplished collection of easy-listening tracks that is a worthy addition to any folk enthusiast’s library. Short opener ‘Paperbox’ is a stripped-back, quality acoustic number, serving as a perfect ‘one-man-and-his-guitar’ introduction.…
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EP | Mina Tindle – Mina Tindle
After lending her voice to projects including but not limited to The National’s Boxer, J.P. Nataf’s Claire and a set of Talking Heads songs on French television, Mina Tindle is ready to strike out on her own. The Parisian is…
News | Folkroom Records Launch Debut Album + Live Showcase.
For some time now, London’s finest folk musicians have been gathering at Kings Cross’ Queens Head, showcasing their talents at the Folkroom. With a steadily growing audience, it only seems right to match this, which is exactly what the team…
Album | The Unthanks – Diversions Vol. 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Anthony & The Johnsons
As you might expect from a group as interesting as The Unthanks, Diversions is not a straight covers album. Rather it is a re-imagining, a project in its own right, comparable to many other ‘versions’ projects that have emerged from…
Album | Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
“Please be merry, when I am buried/In the ground”. Despite recently playing for Kate n’ Wills in his native Canada, FFS favourite Dan Mangan seems a bit glum right now. Moving on from the flimsier topics (robot love and that)…
Album | The Lowland Hundred – Adit
An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
Album | King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…
Album | AA Bondy – Believers
AA Bondy’s third album Believers opens with the pounding beat of ‘The Heart Is Willing’ and straight away it seems to immediately lay down a marker that this is going to be a more powerful, more direct record than those…
Album | Extra Classic – Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like A Laser Beam
Extra Classic hail from home-of-counterculture San Francisco. Some of the six band members have previously played with The Papercuts and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and as recently as 2007 were supporting Modest Mouse and Conor Oberst. So far, so…
Singles Round-up | We Are Augustines, Mozart Parties, Vadoinmessico, The Twilight Sad, Sam Brookes and First Aid Kit
We Are Augustines – Book of James This reminds me of the emotional fervour of Mumford & Sons with less righteousness, more of an incantation than a battlecry. Inspired by family and loss, it’s a eulogy to lead singer Billy…