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.
Paris Jackson –‘wilted’ review: easy, woozy folk-pop with a darker potential
Nobody expected an extended metaphor more blatant than Ariana Grande’s ‘positions’ this year. Then again, nobody expected Michael Jackson’s daughter to go full alt-folk...
Marika Hackman – ‘Covers’ review: a portrait of the artist as a young fan
At some point in the last eight months, most of us have made playlists of songs we love. To feel soothed, or energised, to...
BENEE – ‘Hey u x’ review: supa-goofy pop that pokes fun at its own...
Time moved strangely this year, so it’s unnerving to realise it’s already long enough since ‘bad guy’ to see the pop class of Billie...
Bree Runway – ‘2000and4Eva’ mixtape review: Bree proves she has the keys to the...
Bree Runway’s YouTube channel description reads: ‘it’s like Lady Gaga and Lil Kim had a love child”. Writing about Bree already feels like writing...
Ólafur Arnalds – ‘some kind of peace’ review: the brain refresh we all need...
Ólafur Arnalds and Bob Dylan both profess to ‘contain multitudes’ on their latest records, but for those unfamiliar with the Icelandic instrumentalist, Arnalds is...
Tunng – ‘Dead Club’ review: a musical project about mortality that’s chirpier than it...
Tunng certainly aren’t the first musical act to contemplate death. Rock star departures prompt glittery bursts of public grief, folk and blues give shelter...
Ariana Grande – ‘Positions’ review: she’s not getting political, she’s getting nasty
For most people, 2020 has been rough enough, a total ‘thank u, next’ of a year. For Ariana Grande, however, it’s a relatively quiet...
Jim-E Stack – ‘EPHEMERA’ review: a summer fling of a record with an all-star...
Jim-E Stack is staging an intervention against winter. At least, it sounds that way on his second album ‘EPHEMERA’, which carries all the honeyed...
Bring Me The Horizon – ‘POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR’ EP review: no pop party...
A mash-up of Bring Me The Horizon’s 2013 single ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ – niftily...
Connie Constance – ‘The Butterfly Club’ review: spirited songs that kick identity politics onto...
“I’m cute but I might kick you,” Connie Constance said in an interview last year. It’s a fairly apt description of her new EP...