by Ellie Rumbold • • Comments Off on EP | Ez Stone – Moroccan Whiskey
With an already notable reputation as a mesmerising guitarist, having supported the likes of Rae Morris and John Smith to name a few, Ez Stone’s release of his debut EP Moroccan Whiskey via TLS Records is some very exciting news indeed.…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | Bear’s Den – Without/Within
Within/Without signifies a second 2013 release from London trio Bear’s Den. Following on from February’s stunning EP Agape, this latest offering picks up exactly from where we were left, wanting more. Opening track ‘Sahara pt.I’ will already be well-known to…
by Nico • • Comments Off on New Bands Panel | Isobel Anderson & Ruby Colley – The Sussex Sessions EP
Helen True: Isobel Anderson and Ruby Colley met when each was playing as part of separate acts on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury in 2011. Two years on, they’ve released their first EP, which collects together three reinterpretations of well-loved folk…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | The Wave Pictures – City Forgiveness
City Forgiveness, the fifth studio album from the Wave Pictures, is a rare thing: an album full of substance and ideas, but bound in by style. It’s a road trip album, forged from notes that lead singer David Tattersall took…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Los Campesinos! – NO BLUES
I’ve been looking forward to Los Campesinos!’s fifth album NO BLUES for absolutely ages. The same will be true for a lot of 20-somethings, for whom LC! have been a bit of a soundtrack band since they first emerged as…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Pocktoberfest @ Pocklington Arts Centre
Earlier this year Richard Hawley caused something of a kerfuffle when he revealed he had turned down a slot at Glastonbury because the famous festival had become “meaningless”. For devotees of the Worthy Farm experience this was tantamount to heresy,…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Andrea Tomasi – Hurricane Dream
Andrea Tomasi’s debut album, Hurricane Dream, is incredibly beautiful, and instantly comforting on dark autumn days. Beginning with a campfire guitar, the instrumental opening feels self-assured. It was recorded outside, in the woods: crickets chirping away create a natural space…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Serafina Steer @ House of St Barnabas, London
An evening curated by Jarvis Cocker was never going to be dull. Hosted in their tiny chapel by the House of St Barnabas, a private members’ club that uses its profits to operate as a charity for the homeless, this…
by Hannah Corbett • • Comments Off on Album | Gill Sandell – Light the Boats
Light the Boats, released September of this year, is Gill Sandell’s second album since her well received 2010 debut Tarry Awhile. If Sandell hadn’t already established herself as one hell of a singer/songwriter, Light the Boats certainly sets it in…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | School of Night – School of Night
School of Night is the solo project of The Antlers’ Darby Cicci, who describes this EP as ‘futuristic church music, mixed with sugary pop’. That seems about right, although it also sounds a bit like a daydreaming alien, or a…