Folly of Youth

So is this the end? Possibly. I am going to take a six month break from Folly Of Youth. And then see if I miss it so much I rush back to it...

Once again the year ends with the number of albums I still haven’t heard or will only get round to late into next year far outweighing those...

Tomorrow is the end of the world accordingly to the Mayans. So who better to answer some questions about 2012 than Kiran Leonard who has j...

If you cast your mind back to May on these pages , Thomas Long was talking about the “ more rocked up ” mark 2 version of Easter that had ...

In Summer 2011, I became entranced by the “ Roman Roads ” EP from Land Observations, a trio of minimal motorik instrumentals created out of...

“ Whistle Peak is pop music in disguise ” says Karate Body Records , label and home of the Louisville, Kentucky band. And indeed it is dif...

Hooded Fang ’s debut UK release “ Tosta Mista ” is named after a grilled Portuguese sandwich snack. Apparently. But it’s best not to take ...

Since the first solo album from Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci co-founder Richard James in 2006, the excellent “ The Seven Sleepers Den ”, the inter...

How will you remember 2012? As well as the crooks, liars and continued selling off of our future for profit (see yesterday's Q&A w...

“ This is the North, the fantastical North, home of proud, hard graftin' bastards... " Some records are steeped in a particular ...

For their second full-length release “ The Furious Sound ” (see yesterday’s post ), Edinburgh’s The Douglas Firs apply accident as much as ...

Most of the first half of the second album from orchestral alt-folk ensemble The Douglas Firs is propelled by the heavy insistent beat of ...

About 3.30pm this afternoon I got rather over-excited by seeing an Instagram photo of a grown man playing an amusement machine in a motorw...

January this year saw the release of Laura J Martin ’s debut full-length player “ The Hangman Tree ”: “ intricately arranged, jaunty folk-...