John G. Fagan says: Watchword, the latest album from Swindon band Mr Love & Justice is 1960s-esque, simplistic-yet-effective, folk pop. Stand-out track We, The Chartists, which has a Wicker Man feeling to it. Never Know Why is is another sterling effort.
Album: The Very Most – A Year with the Very Most
The Very Most made it their duty to soundtrack your 2009, releasing an EP for each season, which are now brought together in A Year with the Very Most. The album, which clocks in at a healthy nineteen songs with over…
Classic album recommendation: Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
Despite what anyone says, despite all the distinctly average albums since, Ryan Adams is a genius. Let’s go back nearly ten years to September 2000 and Heartbreaker, his un-missable, un-skippable debut album. Fourteen — well fifteen if you include the…
Laura Marling unveils I Speak Because I Can album artwork
Laura Marling HQ has unveiled the artwork for her forthcoming album I Speak Because I Can. The gorgeous painting is by English artist Sophie Milner, who also created the cover for Mumford and Sons’s EP The Cave. FFS also strongly…
Album: Midlake – The Courage of Others
Realising one’s role in the world is a seminal point in life that is too often underestimated, ignored. I doubt that Tiger Woods remembers the exact moment he picked up his first golf club, or the first time he saw…
Peggy Sue reveal album artwork + tour dates
FFS’s favourite three-piece Peggy Sue have revealed the album artwork and tracklisting for their brilliant debut album Fossils and Other Phantoms, which will be released on 5th April 2010. Peggy Sue’s Katy Young said: “Fossils was recorded over a year…