English-born with a Welsh name (Cariad means ‘love’), and living in Brooklyn. It provides an eclectic background which is clear to hear in Cariad Harmon’s excellent self-titled effort. Before we get to Harmon’s warm, expressive voice, her supreme guitar work…
Two years between albums tends to be a perfectly reasonable turnaround for most artists, but for Jim Noir it feels like an unnecessarily long delay. After all this is the man who released 13, yes that’s right 13, EP’s during…
I first stumbled across The Portraits at the Small World solar tent at Glastonbury 2013 – admittedly I was hiding from the rain but half an hour (and a lot of personal peddling and bubble blowing) later and I was…
On Monday Smoke Fairies will release their alternative Christmas record Wild Winter, and FFS can bring you a first listen to album track ‘Give And Receive’. Wild Winter is being sold exclusively through Rough Trade, and is available in-store or…
Here’s something to really warm those winter cockles – new music from Worcestershire born Maiday as the singer-songwriter releases new track ‘Wish You’d Met Me First’. Maiday, real name Rachel Moulden, has written for the likes of Wretch 32 and…
It’s time to accept the inevitable – Christmas is just around the corner and who better to bring you some yuletide goose bumps than Blackpool’s Rae Morris. After releasing the video for new single ‘Under The Shadows’ last week, Rae…