Kate French-Morris
Kate is a writer from London. She likes running, sour beer, loud guitars, and euphoric-melancholic pop. If she was a song right now she’d be Jenny by The Mountain Goats.
Du Blonde – ‘Homecoming’ review: distressed DIY garage-pop ready for the jukebox
What do you do when you realise, “I've been a queen, I've been a king, and still I don't fit in”? Well, if you’re...
45s of the week: Japanese Breakfast, Holly Humberstone, Sinead O Brien, and more!
SINEAD O BRIEN: 'KID STUFF'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYWvqgTXFg
Irish poet and musician Sinead O Brien channels a restlessness inside a stillness on 'Kid Stuff' – watching clocks, sunsets,...
Dry Cleaning – ‘New Long Leg’ review: sharply observational bric-a-brac
“Do everything feel nothing,” Dry Cleaning repeat on the first track of their debut album ‘New Long Leg’. Though that particular song, 'Scratchcard Lanyard',...
Demi Lovato – ‘Dancing With The Devil … The Art of Starting Over’ review:...
Demi Lovato’s recent documentary ‘Dancing With The Devil’ was no airbrushed tale of narcissistic woe, but a disarmingly candid account. By disclosing the traumatic...
Nasty Cherry – ‘The Movie’ EP review: another tempting morsel from the pop-rock girl...
So far, Nasty Cherry’s discography feels like a dress-up box of pop: debut single ‘Win’ with its New Order bassline, the Sky Ferreira tones...
Tune-Yards – ‘sketchy.’ review: playful pop for painful times
Tune-Yards are a Trojan horse of a band. From their colourful Wacky Warehouse of sound emerge dark, difficult subjects, and their fifth release, ‘sketchy.’,...
serpentwithfeet – ‘DEACON’ review: tender, uncomplicated expressions of queer Black love
serpentwithfeet may be a classically-trained singer, but church music is his “natural cadence”, his songs the product of growing up in “a Black ass...
First Aid Kit – ‘Who By Fire’ review: sisters of mercy sing a tribute...
Since 2007, Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit have fine-tuned their brand of folk and country pop: Americana with all...
Justin Bieber – ‘Justice’ review: not-so-political pop
Justin Bieber is pop’s Goldilocks. Too ubiquitous, too reluctant; too messed-up, too devout; too mainstream, too R&B – his 2015 album ‘Purpose’ rode the...
Loretta Lynn – ‘Still Woman Enough’ review: a steely late-career flourish
Loretta Lynn didn’t even know what the country music chart was until her debut single ‘Honky Tonk Girl’ hit number 14 in the summer...