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.
Billie Marten – ‘Flora Fauna’ review: fresher, bolder, and not so green
Billie Marten was just 17 when she released her debut album, ‘Writing Of Blues And Yellows’ in 2016. Growing up in rural Yorkshire, the...
St Vincent – ‘Daddy’s Home’ review: from behind sepia-toned sunglasses, a steely gaze forward
“Who wants to be themselves all the time?” wonders Annie Clark. The artist known as St Vincent remains essentially unknowable, ever since her debut...
Holly Macve – ‘Not The Girl’ review: brewing up a storm
In a recent interview, Lana Del Rey revealed that should there be a movie about her life, she’d like to be played by Holly...
Jorja Smith – ‘Be Right Back’ review: a sophisticated, tender interlude
Jorja Smith steers her own ship, and she’s in cool, calm command. Other artists might’ve just released ‘Be Right Back’ – a set of...
Bebe Rexha – ‘Better Mistakes’ review: pop’s cross-pollinator continues her scrappy charm
“Fail again. Fail better,” goes the famous Samuel Beckett line, and while he certainly wasn’t referring to the minefield that is being a twenty-first-century...
Squid – ‘Bright Green Field’ review: a bonkers, borderless debut
Listening to Squid’s first full-length album is like taking a drive through England: lengthy stretches of undulating green, sometimes interrupted by noisy concrete towns...
Dodie – ‘Build A Problem’ review: buffed-up bedroom pop chronicles
Dodie Clark has her own shade of yellow. ‘Dodie yellow’ – official hex code #fef65b – began as the colour of a dress the...
Birdy – ‘Young Heart’ review: a case of blue, poetic heartbreak
The first cut is the deepest, as Cat Stevens once sang, which might explain why ‘Young Heart’, written after Birdy’s first major break-up, is...
Royal Blood – ‘Typhoons’ review: soberbangers that don’t quite rewrite the book
Mike Kerr shakes off the shingle from his bass on Royal Blood’s third offering ‘Typhoons’, which finds the rock band chasing a cleaner, groovier...
Julia Michaels – ‘Not In Chronological Order’ review: A showcase of love and pop...
Julia Michaels pulls the strings of pop. Since her teens she’s written songs for a boundless litany of artists: Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez,...