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.
Lana Del Rey – ‘Blue Banisters’ review: archival, alluring, and quietly assertive
Of late, and to mixed effect, Lana Del Rey has administered several doses of reality into her mythic shtick. Her real-life girlfriends adorn the...
Deb Never – ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone’ review: half-sad, half-stoked, and in...
‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone?’, the 1955 Pete Seeger song that shares its name with Deb Never’s new record, repeatedly wonders, “when will...
Sleigh Bells – ‘TEXIS’ review: another round of brilliant buzzsaw pop
Somebody’s wreaking havoc in a tin shed – hammering metal, buzzsaws whirring wildly, nuts and bolts flying in all directions. Who is it? Vocalist...
Amyl and The Sniffers – ‘Comfort To Me’ review: sleeves still rolled up, but...
“Don’t fence me in!” demands Amy Taylor, Amyl and The Sniffers’ coiled spring of a frontwoman, two-thirds of the way through their second album....
Kacey Musgraves – ‘Star-Crossed’ review: a modern take on the black hole of heartache
“If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore / you don't save yourself for marriage, you're a whore…ible person,” Kacey Musgraves sang in...
Big Red Machine – ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’ review: a...
Big Red Machine plough some extremely fertile fields. The founding members alone – Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner – are...
Chubby and the Gang – ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’ review: a teeth-rattling tour de force...
In a week when we’ve lost an all-time iconic London musician, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, it feels right to talk about a band...
Chvrches – ‘Screen Violence’ review: preaching to the converted
At their best, Chvrches make their beloved eighties synth-pop influences (Depeche Mode, to name the obvious one – they even borrow that stylised ‘E’)...
Billie Eilish – ‘Happier Than Ever’ review: a seething, unsettling, intimidatingly poised second album
Zoom out from the title of Billie Eilish’s second album ‘Happier Than Ever’ – a sarky jab at those who called her too gloomy...
Bleachers – ‘Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night’ review: heart-in-your-mouth pop
Imagine you have fallen in love, and you are taking your lover back to your hometown, the place where you are from. You might...