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.
Ashnikko: “You get the best songs on the brink of insanity”
Ashnikko doesn’t just subvert feminine stereotypes: she flips them, kicks them to the ground, and dances on them in glass platform boots until they’re...
clipping. – ‘Visions Of Bodies Being Burned’ review: a horrorcore album about real world...
‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ – clipping.'s fourth album – is the opposite of ASMR – unless you’re soothed by disconcerting creaks, jumps and...
Adrianne Lenker – ‘songs’ and ‘instrumentals’ review
The worlds of song-writing and ASMR draw ever closer. Last week Phoebe Bridgers appeared on an ASMR Youtube channel, and this week Big Thief’s...
Emmy The Great – ‘April /月音’ review: a tender album about place and purpose
“By certain scales, a life goes by so very fast/ Some days go easy, some will wear you like a mask,” a fortune-teller tells...
Laura Jane Grace – ‘Stay Alive’ review
Two years ago, Laura Jane Grace sang about how much she hated her home city of Chicago. Now she’s kinda stuck there. But ‘I...
Deftones – ‘Ohms’ review: ferocious after thirty years
To date Deftones are filed under at least seventeen different musical genres. So for the uninitiated, their highly distilled ninth record ‘Ohms’ is perversely...
45s of the week: Sophie Jamieson, Travis Scott, Kevin Morby and more!
Sophie Jamieson – 'Release'
https://youtu.be/ayyrV7a_Z-Q
Moving backwards at speed in her self-filmed music video for ‘Release’, Sophie Jamieson spins round the city, where “oblivion never looked...
Bright Eyes – ‘Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was’ review
It’s been a while since a new Bright Eyes record, and the contemplative weight of ‘Down in the Weeds, Where The World Once Was’...
The Lemon Twigs: “John Prine was a huge influence. His music is beautiful”
You’d be forgiven for thinking The Lemon Twigs had landed straight from the seventies, emerging suited and booted from a glittery time machine. But...
Becca Mancari – ‘The Greatest Part’ review: an album that dances through life’s tough...
When you truly let your guard down, you risk a flood of emotive material, which could be why Becca Mancari’s second record ‘The Greatest...