Ferris & Sylvester –
Sometimes
Ferris & Sylvester - Sometimes
Release Date: Out Now
I still think these two should
have gone with Issy and Archie instead of Ferris and Sylvester but when you’re
this talented the name doesn’t really matter. Just ask Englebert Humperdinck.
Anyhoo, the London based duo are back with another elegant slice of nu-folk on
new single ‘Sometimes’ and if you’re not up to speed with these two then it’s a
great ‘in’, as they say in the biz. Issy Ferris’ is the first voice you hear
and for a couple of lines she does a great Laura Marling before settling in to
her own stride on a song that is as quietly angry as it is softly reassuring.
“We don’t love like we did before and I don’t know what we’re doing this for”,
they sing (Archie Sylvester brings his gruff, deep tones to the table now) and
there’s a sense of having your inner thoughts (or one of them) reflected back
which is incredibly soothing. A lilting melody with sprinkled piano notes, a
hearty guitar twang and a structure which suggests the end of something with no
little regret is all it takes to make me slump back in my chair and just let
this wash over me. “Sometimes I forget where I am when I with you”. Touché you
guys, touché.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/FerrisandSylvester/
Live Dates:
22nd September – Reeperbahn,
Hamburg
28th September – BBC Music
Day
29th September –
Common Ground Festival, London
8th October –
Dingwalls, London w/Donovan Frankenreiter
15th October – Vicar Street,
Dublin w/John Oates
17th October – RNCM Concert
Hall, Manchester w/John Oates
19th October – Cadogan
Hall, London w/John Oates
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