Cory Branan is the musician’s musician, feted and adored by luminaries of the business, including the likes of Frank Turner, Chuck Ragan, and fellow rising Country star Caitlin Rose, the latter guesting on the fantastic steel-stringed ‘All the Rivers in…
Cold Specks, alleged purveyor of ‘Gloom soul’ (whatever that is), return with second album Neuroplasticity, two years after debut I Predict A Graceful Explosion in 2012. It’s a punchy, powerful album, going straight in for the jugular with the opening…
Tom’s Lunch is The Phoenix Foundation’s latest follow up to 2013’s full length Fandango, and the stalwarts of the NZ music scene have delivered a tasty morsel with this five-track EP. Opening track ‘Bob Lennon John Dylan’ is frustratingly catchy,…
We don’t cover too many Dinosaur Jr records on FFS, but the new solo record from band leader J. Mascis is a delicate and pretty affair. The guitars are inevitably gorgeous. The record at first doesn’t seem to go anywhere…
James Yorkston’s eighth album is a delicately beautiful affair, much in the vein of his earlier offerings. Produced by Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and with additional vocals from KT Tunstall, it is an intricate melding of melancholic melodies and guitar,…
Dan Michaelson’s fifth record since the break-up of previous band Absentee captures a theme of heartbreak and sinks it deep into your soul within thirty blissful minutes. Written after his divorce, this is as raw and as gripping as you…
Fresh from an appearance at this weekend’s Green Man Festival, Ivan Campo continue the celebration of their tenth year with their ninth album release Fantastic Blue. The trio – Adam Shaw (lead vocals and guitar), Ben Atha (Bass) and Will…
It’s safe to say that there is nothing like some fresh-cut bluegrass. You might as well consider Trampled by Turtles a lawnmower then because they provide nothing short of that. Lame puns aside, Wild Animals shows an incredibly different and…
Emerging in 2012 as BBC 6 Music presenter Steve Lamacq’s ‘One to Watch’, Luke Sital-Singh has been quietly building towards The Fire Inside, his debut album, which follows a string of EP’s released in the interim 18 months since his appearance…
Emily Barker’s latest project, Vena Portae, emerged from recording sessions in the winter months of 2012 in Sweden; the delay between recording and release the result of each members on-going musical commitments. Where Barker’s voice would usually be accompanied by…