Emma Holbrook
Emma is a writer and video editor from North London who owns too much corduroy. She loves making excessively long mixtapes, being the tallest person at a gig, and watching Haim walk down a street. Lorde’s ‘Melodrama' is the best album of the past twenty years – change her mind.
MUNA – ‘MUNA’ review: winds of change take synth-pop superheroes to new heights
It only took three records, a pandemic, and a helping hand from Phoebe Bridgers for enough people to finally realise that it’s MUNA’s world...
Billie Eilish live in London: the future is bright for a generational superstar
Like Peter Parker before her, Billie Eilish truly understands the sentiment: “with great power comes great responsibility”.
At only 20 years old, Eilish has reached...
ABBA Voyage review: a dazzling digital spectacle of revolutionary proportions
In a period littered with music stories that could easily have been fever dreams, none were met with such a heavy air of scepticism...
A match made in The Valley: the evolution of Haim and Paul Thomas Anderson
If Haim’s music videos for the past few years have had an off-kilter, cinematic quality to them, it’s only fitting. When the band released...
Courtney Barnett – ‘Things Take Time, Take Time’ review: deadpan wit makes way for...
Rare, unaffected wit, among many things, is what singled out Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett on her wicked smart debut ‘Sometimes I Sit And Think,...
ABBA – ‘Voyage’ review: pop geniuses impervious to the passage of time
The last time ABBA released an album, Diana was married to Prince Charles, MTV was exclusively a music video channel, and Anni-Frid was sporting...
‘Another Christmas’ interview: “We all deserve a Silent Night”
As Christmas draws closer and so too does the darkest day of the calendar year, it's an opportunity to reflect on whether this time...
Snail Mail: “It’s hard for me to not put it all out there all...
“It’s a relief just to say what's on your mind.”
Lindsey Jordan knows the value of being an open book. The Maryland musician, better known...
Olivia Rodrigo drops a surprise ‘Traitor’ music video
Don’t fret: the Olivia Rodrigo Cinematic Universe isn’t finished quite yet. ‘Sour’ may have been released back in May but Rodrigo has just dropped...
Self Esteem – ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ review: a glorious, stirring manifesto on female self-worth
Reflecting on the process of writing her masterpiece, ‘Blue’, Joni Mitchell once confessed that she spent that period of her life “dripping in earnestness...