Very occasionally Windows Media Player can be quite an astute critic. Take for instance its acute appraisal of Slow Down, Molasses’s Walk into the Sea: “Unknown Genre”. It’s right. The band’s music seems to me to refuse to take shape,…
Live | The Unthanks with the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band @ Leeds Town Hall
We’re stepping out of our comfort zone here, all of us. FFS is not used to attending gigs – no, wait, this is definitely a ‘concert’ – in venues like the magnificent 19th century Leeds Town Hall, and while the…
Album | Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
In my previous job, I worked as a presenter for new music station Amazing Radio. One of the first songs I had the opportunity to play on my folk-themed show was the wonderful track Giants, by North East ‘digital orchestra’…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees Dark Dark Dark
Marshall: “I wanted Dark Dark Dark to open for Adele on an “epic female vocalists and body-positive-famous girls” bill that would’ve stolen the world.”
Interview | Josh T. Pearson
Last of the Country Gentlemen, as a statement about Josh T. Pearson, only tells half the story. This year’s masterpiece of gutwrenchingly personal country-folk is expertly recounted, masterfully played and needfully drawn-out. But in talking to the man or seeing…
Album | Slow Club – Paradise
In the two years since their debut Yeah So, it’s clear Slow Club have done a whole lot of growing up. Where the debut delighted us with its quirky, often shambolic joy, it still strayed too close to being, well,…