If you like at least some music, it seems unlikely that you could possibly dislike Other Lives. It’s just a fact. Tamer Animals, their second album under this band moniker, is a record satiated by generic influences, gracefully pirouetting from…
News | Laura Veirs announces follow up to July Flame
Laura Veirs’ July Flame was one of FFS’s favourite albums of last year. And as if her feminist-punk past didn’t leave us fully smitten. Laura’s superwoman-style touring – first uberpregnant and then with baby Tennessee in tow – gave us…
Album | Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Mirror Traffic
There’s something about the men behind boring band names. Just as the blunt mundaneity of Elbow’s name belies their swooning instrumentation and the wry lyrics of Morrissey served to emphasise the irony in The Smiths everyday moniker, Pavement were always…
Album | Beirut – The Rip Tide
Now, I’m not a parent, but I imagine there is an overwhelming sense of relief when your offspring makes the switch from gurgling, screeching waif in need of constant attention to something that is more developed and offers a little…
News | Midlake announce tiny London show
We had to check this news three times to be sure… Midlake have announced a show on Thursday at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in East London. Tickets are £22.50 + booking fee from Stargreen, and go on sale at…
Album | North Sea Radio Orchestra – I a Moon
Listening to North Sea Radio Orchestra, FFS is pretty certain that, had the music teacher in charge of our school orchestra encouraged us to practice this sort of thing, instead of jerky, deeply uncool ‘big band music’, we might be…