Let me get the negative out of the way right off the bat: this was a gig to forget. And I think no-one would like to forget it more than Lissie. It was unprofessional and downright disappointing. If that’s enough…
Category: Reviews
Album | Thea Gilmore – Regardless
Thea Gilmore’s return, following the birth of her second child, brings with it a 14th studio album in as many years which finds her on top of her game. Gilmore herself admits the time she took away from music helped…
Album | Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone
The town of Jackson, Tennessee sits just a little west of the midway point on a long stretch of Interstate 40 which goes by the name of the Music Highway. It is where Carl Perkins came of age, and it…
Album | Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost
The sixth album of Iron & Wine, the pseudonym of all American Samuel Beam, opens with the industrial sounds of a construction works, only then to jump into a gorgeous guitar intro reminiscent of previous albums. Ghost on Ghost, though…
Album | Jonny Fritz – Dad Country
You may not recognise the name, but chances are you know who Jonny Fritz is. We can throw out there his former stage name Jonny Corndawg, and perhaps we’ll still get a few blank expressions, but the name Caitlin Rose…
Album | Noah & The Whale – Heart of Nowhere
Fade in. Exterior shot. Non-descript North American suburbs. A long street, lined with pristine houses and sedans, filled with people in suits and ties climbing into their cars and driving off for work. Straight cut to a train station. A…
Album | Longpigs – On And On: The Anthology
As Suede become the latest Britpop band to hit the road on the reunion trail – sporting, it should be said, a creditable comeback album – it is slowly dawning on those of us who were there to enjoy the…
Album | Tom McRae – From The Lowlands
Tom McRae’s fifth album, The Alphabet Of Hurricanes, received a decidedly lukewarm critical response upon its release in 2010, making the decision to release a follow-up billed as a second part of the project, and containing a song of that…
New Bands Panel | Yesper – Cannibal King EP
Cannibal King isn’t the kind of EP title you get on this website all that often… it might even be the first time that a title about eating human flesh has ever appeared on FFS (Not quite! See here). Anyway, when Yesper,…
Album | William Tyler – Impossible Truth
William Tyler will be familiar to fans of Lambchop and Silver Jews, having toured with both of those bands as a guitarist. He’s also a well-respected solo artist in his own right, creating soothing instrumental music with his guitars. His…