Hollie Geraghty
Hollie Geraghty is an NCTJ qualified freelance music and culture journalist with bylines in NME, Rolling Stone UK, The Guardian, Dance Magazine and more. She loves to shout about the pop girlies and has interviewed the likes of Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Gracie Abrams, Beabadoobee and Maggie Rogers. She’s also a big fan of alt R&B, 80s film soundtracks, and funky soul playlists for roller skating sessions.
45s of the week: Arlo Parks, Cat Burns, Olivia Dean and more!
ARLO PARKS – ‘DEVOTION’
The final single from her second album ‘My Soft Machine’ (out today) and one of Arlo Parks’ favourite songs she’s ever...
45s of the week: PJ Harvey, Kesha, Rachel Chinouriri and more!
RACHEL CHINOURIRI – ‘RIBS’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREFxciBy60
On her lively new single the alternative indie-pop artist captures the lovesick feeling of when physical pain meets the emotional. Written...
45s of the week: The Japanese House, Rina Sawayama, FLO and more!
THE JAPANESE HOUSE – ‘BOYHOOD’
Four years since Amber Bain’s deeply vulnerable debut album ‘Good At Falling’ detailed the world-altering demise and eventual end of...
45s of the week: Lana Del Rey, Janelle Monáe, 100 gecs and more!
JANELLE MONÁE – ‘FLOAT’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xf28VXMB2w
The new era from multi-talented actor and singer, Janelle Monáe, has arrived and a trumpeting horn procession lines their comeback parade....
Caroline Polachek – ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’: worldly star trades pained...
In the opening moments of Caroline Polachek’s new album, ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ – the second under her real name, and...
45s of the week: Rosalía, Samia, Zara Larsson and more!
DAISY JONES & THE SIX – ‘REGRET ME’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ywkDC9rEo
Not only is ‘Regret Me’ an exciting debut single, but it arrives from a totally new band...
45s of the week: Ava Max, Coi Leray, Twice Tzuyu and more!
AVA MAX – ‘DANCING’S DONE’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-z7y6nabho&feature=emb_title
“I wanna give in to your dark temptation,” Ava Max teases on her menacing new single, the latest preview of...
SZA – ‘SOS’ review: R&B star’s glistening return is a sprawling fusion of old...
Few sophomore albums are preceded by the kind of devoted anticipation that surrounded SZA’s ‘SOS’. Since the release of her now-seminal debut ‘Ctrl’ in...
45s of the week ft. Daine, Linn, Emma Bradley and more!
DAINE – ‘SHAPELESS’
The title track from the Australian emo-pop artist’s forthcoming mixtape is a propulsive, dead-behind-the-eyes dissection of identity. “Lips fake eyes fake /...
45s of the week: Rihanna, SZA, La Roux and more!
RIHANNA – ‘LIFT ME UP’
It’s no surprise that Rihanna’s first song in six years is loaded with meaning. Released as the lead single from the...