There’s a new contender for the UK’s loveliest small festival. Honeyfest was organised after villiagers in the Wiltshire town of Pewsey were given lottery funding to take over the running of their local pub, The Barge Inn. As well as…
Category: Reviews
Album: Alela Diane & Wild Divine
Filigree-wearing femmes, gun-toters and life stories in three minutes are staples of country music that FFS adores, and Alela Diane’s third studio album has served to deepen our adoration. As if we needed any help. Her rich, clear vocals are like…
Album: Eliza Carthy – Neptune
For those young adults (like myself) who grew up listening to traditional folk music it feels quite surreal, even disarmingly uncomfortable, to have to weave into an Eliza Carthy review a brief description of the artist herself, of where she…
Album: Jim White – Sound of the Americans
Jim White has teamed up with Dan Nettles to create Sounds of the Americans, an epic, eclectic 16 track album that juxtaposes underscored narration with entirely instrumental numbers. The album opens with a cover of Daniel Johnston’ s ‘Speeding Motorcycle’,…
EP: Ben Howard – The Old Pine
The 23-year-old Ben Howard hails from South Devon, comfortably nestled between the moors and the sea. Taking inspiration from his surroundings, he goes back to his youth with his latest EP, The Old Pine. Together with Chris Bond on bass…
Album: Alessi’s Ark – Time Travel
‘Oh by now I must’ve grown’, sings Alessi Laurent-Marke on her second album Time Travel. And she has. Her writing, her melodies, the playing, the whole ambience of this album is stronger, more mature and simply wonderful. She’s yet to…
Album: Sara Lowes – Back To Creation
Sara Lowes has been on the fringes of the cooler kids of the music industry for some time, having collaborated with the critically-acclaimed likes of King Creosote and the Earlies. She finally steps into the limelight proper with Back to…
Album: Hurray for the Riff Raff – Hurray for the Riff Raff
Louisiana’s Hurray For the Riff Raff make what they call ‘melodramatic popular songs’ – and sound a little like a darker Be Good Tanyas with their harsh, growly, female vocalist, banjos and resonant, deep, slow drums. It’s a formula that…
EP: Lau vs Adem – Ghosts
With their recent series of collaborative EPs, Lau have earned a reputation for pushing the envelope, so we wanted to do something similar ourselves when it came to a review. Given that the Scots’ records are named a little…
Album: Bella Hardy – Songs Lost And Stolen
Songs Lost And Stolen is a coming of age album for Derbyshire’s Bella Hardy. Her previous two records stuck to folk standards but here she finds the confidence to give us 12 self-written works. And backed by Scottish-Canadian ‘supergroup’ the…