‘New York, New York’ may sound like perfect American driving music but it is in reality Swedish through and through. This is the first track to be taken from Underdogism, the debut album from Filip Sundberg – aka Tiger Forest…
Before Inside Llewyn Davis there was O Brother, Where Art Thou?, another music-based Coen brothers film with a soundtrack masterminded by T Bone Burnett. Among the many, many treats that album has to offer, one of the greatest – and…
You know that we’re big Beautiful South fans here at FFS so it won’t surprise you to hear we have a soft spot for the Housemartins too. Many of their seemingly more gentle tracks – including this 1987 release which…
The band formerly known as (We are) Augustines have dropped the prefix, due to a legal dispute, and created a new record under the simple name, Augustines. Those who were fans of their debut, ‘Rise ye Sunken Ships’ need not…
Inside Llewyn Davis – the latest Coen brothers film which is out this weekend – shows the struggles of a 1960s folk musician trying to make it as a solo artist having previously been part of a duo. It got…
January in the UK means many things, but it always means a heap of TV adverts for holidays in southern California. Sun! Surf! Doom-folk! Wait, what? Okay, so that last one is yet to feature alongside Rob Lowe et al…