Somewhere in the netherworld between folk, rock and jazz, Ben Watt’s Fever Dream paints pictures using more oils than watercolors. Watt’s resulting images have a sharp focus, while catering less to current trends than some of his work with Everything…
T R O U B L E, the latest bedroom-folk-rock release from long-standing Canadian folk icon, Woodpigeon, sounds as worldly and experienced as its creator Mark Andrew Hamilton. With aural references to Scotland and South America and the Middle East,…
Everything You’ve Come To Expect is far more experimental than anything we’ve seen from Turner or Kane separately or together, bordering on some Baroque pop concept album in the style of a punk rock David Bowie. At times, it feels…
Since 1999, Explosions in the Sky have refined a formula without sounding formulaic. Now, after five years working on three soundtracks, they return with an LP that sounds remarkably like….Explosions in the Sky! The band trades on the ecstatic moment…
In last week’s on FFS Artist Blog, Danny Green aka Laish, gave us some insight on his upcoming release, Pendulum Swing. I can confidently say that the EP Song For Everything and the titular single will satiate you while you…
Ben Cooper doesn’t appear to be an artist bereft of ideas. As well as musical genealogy projects (more of which in a moment) he’s a visual artist, runs a digital design company and is a member of bands Electric President,…
In May 2014, former Arab Strap frontman and songwriter Aidan Moffat decided to make a film set out on a tour of his homeland of Scotland to explore the country’s past by rewriting, updating and touring its oldest songs. Along…
In this eponymously-titled album Eric Bachmann has made a conscious break from his previous post-Archers of Loaf project Crooked Fingers and produced what he describes as the most raw and honest record of his career. But don’t let that mislead…
American Primitive recalls a certain style of guitar playing popularised by the likes of John Fahey and Robbie Basho. Glenn Jones has more than a fleeting knowledge of the two having toured with, and produced live discs for both artists.…
“Love, love, love…love is the answer.” So sings Emmy the Great on the fourth track of this, her third album. It’s a familiar statement. Reassuring. Sweetly delivered. Beautifully rendered. Oh…there’s more…”But I’m a comfortable liar,” she adds. A sting in…