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.
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...
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...