Blog: Parasites & Sycophants

Freddy Stevenson's All My Strange Companions has been one of this year's pleasant surprises. Here in the space of an album, the man referred to as a Scottish folk punk, lays out song after song filled with melodies saturated with feeling. Freddy diversifies the songwriting enough to keep the listener well involved, whether flying high, like on opener "Easy Now," with tales of JK Rowling following him around; or staying closer to the earth on the introspective folk liaison "If an Alien Astronomer Could see Us from Afar," or the touching resolution of "The Occasional Spell." Sometimes [...]

• Freddie Stevenson - Easy Now
• Freddie Stevenson - If You Don't Kiss Me
• Freddie Stevenson - Love Is Gonna Take It's Toll