Liv Greene - I Can Be Grateful
I can be grateful but still mad, I can be happy but oh so sad. Deep Feeler by Liv Greene Listen on GFP / Bandcamp *
109: Fionn Regan - O AVALANCHE (ft. Anna Friel)
Apologies for dropping off the radar for a little while there. After reaching 100+ posts I needed a little breather and figured most of you would have some catch-up listening to do... I spent the weekend wandering around Copenhagen, colourful Scandinavian buildings against mostly grey Autumnal skies, but strangely warm
108: Helen Ganya - Share Your Care
As Dog In The Snow, Helen Ganya released some beautiful music from her Brighton home, the Scottish-Thai songwriter finding endlessly evocative ways of marrying sound and sentiment. In 2022 she released the polish the machine LP under her own name and via the Bella Union label, but was in fact
107: Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes (Live from St Mark's Cathedral)
Though he's carved out a widely cherished and acclaimed career, I still think there's a world in which Damien Jurado is held in the very highest echelon's of those singer-songwriters that have outlasted the shift from the 90s independent scene to this ugly new
106: One True Pairing - Frozen Food Centre
Since Wld Beasts called it a day back in 2017, both their two lead voices have crafted out solo careers, with Hayden Thorpe releasing under his own name and Tom Fleming sharing now three full-length efforts under his One True Pairing moniker. Led by his distinctive and unruly baritone, Fleming
105: Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions - Lovely on the Water
You know where you are from the first aching note of Bridget Hayden's astonishing new album: steeped in drizzle, high upon a hill, looking out across weather-beaten moorland. That might feel a little too on-the-nose as descriptors go but those elements - the land, the weather - were
104: Barry Archie Johnson - I'm Sure I'll See You Soon
It seems a little silly to recommend the fleeting two-minute closing track as the choice pick from Barry Archie Johnson’s exquisite new album - especially when said LP is defined by its long and sprawling instrumental landscapes - but there’s enough magic in these brief glimpses of his
103: aus - Another
Tokyo label FLAU are one of those gems from the underground scene that I likely would never have stumbled upon if it weren't for GFP's own journey. We first covered them way back in time, I think initially with a wonderful album from Cuushe, which had
102: Porridge Radio - God Of Everything Else
I remember thinking, when I first saw Porridge Radio play live, in a sweaty Lexington on a crisp cold London night, that they were probably the best "band" that the UK had to offer. And I mean band in that slightly redundant, old fashioned sense; a tight-knit group
A Day In The Life: Friko
Chicago's Friko came bounding into the new year with a gutsy, visceral throwback to early noughties indie rock. Armed with an album cover plucked straight from Conor Oberst's dusty old bookshelf, and the kind of warbling, teetering-on-the-edge voice that could shape the weather, their debut full-length
101: Caroline Says - Always Looking Back
The cover of the new Caroline Says LP, released just last week, features Caroline Sallee caught in a double-exposure, the same face facing the same way but double-tracked, side by side with herself. On 'Always Looking Back', the album's centre-point and most compelling moment, both of
100: Youth Lagoon - My Beautiful Girl / Lucy Takes A Picture
For reasons I don't need to start pulling apart today, I've been thinking a lot recently about the passing of time and how we mark and sometimes celebrate certain occasions. Births and deaths, chapters new and repeated; small milestones in a big old chunk of life.