Alexander Wolfe’s debut album ‘Morning Brings A Flood’ drew comparisons with the likes of Nick Drake and Coldplay when it was released via iTunes last year. Now to celebrate its first physical release, Wolfe has offered up a free EP…
Category: Reviews
Live: Joanna Newsom @ Royal Festival Hall
As he leaves the stage, support act and folk legend Roy Harper sums the night up perfectly, before it has even happened: we are about to be treated to “one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen, performing some of…
Album: Junkboy – Koyo
For those familiar with Junkboy‘s previous output, Koyo may come as something of a surprise. Although never a completely full-on krautrock machine, Junkboy, aka brothers Mik and Rich Hanscomb, certainly knew how to get into the teutonic groove. On Koyo,…
FFS New Bands Panel – Admiral Fallow
Five students came together in Glasgow four years ago to form the Brother Louis Collective. Fast forward a little while, and the newly-monikered Admiral Fallow have just put out their debut album, Boots Met My Face, mixing several different sounds…
Album: To My Boy – The Habitable Zone
This writer remembers, back in the days of (gulp) new-rave, turning on a music channel and being faced with To My Boy playing hyperactive post punk chords and glitchy Atari beeps whilst singing from the point of view of an…
Live: She & Him @ Koko
She & Him have always felt a little bit too good to be true. Take an indie boy’s dream starlet, pair her up with one of the folk world’s most talented musicians, and let the two of them make sweet,…
Single: Draw Me Stories — Becomes the Hunted/Oars
Draw Me Stories have a dark, foreboding, mood that infects their music. It’s a quality they share with cult 90’s emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate. It also makes for addictive listening. Their new single contains the songs ‘Becomes the…
Single Review: Laura Marling – Rambling Man
Gone are the wispy, brittle songs of Alas I Cannot Swim. Twenty-year-old Marling’s second album, I Speak Because I Can, is simmering with a certain confidence in style that seems to have replaced the endearing tenderness of the debut. ‘Rambling…
Live: FFS @ The Camden Crawl
FFS’s Chris Gent moseyed on down to the Camden Crawl for the May bank holiday weekend. Here, he provides his impressions of three folk-tastic bands for your esteemed consideration. Kurran and the Wolfnotes @ The Enterprise Kurran and the Wolfnotes…
Album: Pearly Gate Music – Pearly Gate Music
Zach Tillman, the man behind Pearly Gate Music, is the brother of Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman. There are two reasons why it’s best to mention this up front, I think, rather than dance around it. Firstly, Josh’s name is…