Laura Marling’s hotly-anticipated 3rd album is out on 12th September, and it’s live on the Guardian website to listen to in full. Titled A Creature I Don’t Know, it’s Laura’s first album with her own band – the Mumford boys…
Listen now | St Vincent – Strange Mercy
St Vincent is yet another brilliant artist releasing a record on 12th September (there are albums from Laura Marling, Slow Club and Peggy Sue out the same day). We love love love Annie Clark here at FFS, and this album…
Album recommendation | Middle Brother – Middle Brother
First things first, this is not a review of a new album. This collaboration between Deer Tick’s John McCauley, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith and Delta Spirit’s Matt Vasquez came out all the way back in February. It never got a proper…
FFS Schmercury best album prize: Vote now!
The Secret Sisters, The Leisure Society, Emmy the Great, Middle Brother, Fleet Foxes, The Low Anthem, Devon Sproule, Wye Oak, Dark Dark Dark, Mechanical Bride, Rachael Dadd, This is the Kit. Who made your favourite album of the last year?
Best album poll: It’s the Schmercuries 2011
On the eve of the Mercury poll, FFS have put together a list of our 12 favourite folk-tinged albums of the past year for our very own Schmercury prize. We’re going to do things a little differently this year, and…
Album | Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
As the only Californian on the For Folk’s Sake writing roster, I felt it was my duty to grab Nothing Is Wrong by Dawes. Not only are they from Malibu, an oceanside haven near Los Angeles, but they sound more…