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Emma Holbrook

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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 – ‘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

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

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...
Haim Paul Thomas Anderson Summer Girl

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

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

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

‘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

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 Traitor Music Video

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...