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.
serpentwithfeet – ‘DEACON’ review: tender, uncomplicated expressions of queer Black love
serpentwithfeet may be a classically-trained singer, but church music is his “natural cadence”, his songs the product of growing up in “a Black ass...
First Aid Kit – ‘Who By Fire’ review: sisters of mercy sing a tribute...
Since 2007, Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit have fine-tuned their brand of folk and country pop: Americana with all...
Justin Bieber – ‘Justice’ review: not-so-political pop
Justin Bieber is pop’s Goldilocks. Too ubiquitous, too reluctant; too messed-up, too devout; too mainstream, too R&B – his 2015 album ‘Purpose’ rode the...
Loretta Lynn – ‘Still Woman Enough’ review: a steely late-career flourish
Loretta Lynn didn’t even know what the country music chart was until her debut single ‘Honky Tonk Girl’ hit number 14 in the summer...
The Anchoress – ‘The Art Of Losing’ review: masterful emotion and musical thrill
“Let it hurt some, let it hurt some,” commands Catherine Anne Davies at the start of ‘The Art Of Losing’, her second album as...
Genesis Owusu – ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ review: a disjointedly brilliant debut
At a time when so much of the music industry remains bogged down by labels, Genesis Owusu dwells in a world where genre is...
Zara Larsson – ‘Poster Girl’ review: a straightforward shot of pop
On the cover of ‘Poster Girl’, Zara Larsson leans against the side of her bed, a vision in a cropped baby blue jumper. Flowers...
Kings Of Leon – ‘When You See Yourself’ review: Nothing is on fire here
Once upon a time it was Kings Of Leon’s hair that straggled – now it’s their songs. “The pleasures of this life, I'm told...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – ‘L.W.’ review: a second act that contains...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard possess a back catalogue sizeable enough that they could have been going as long as psychedelia itself. Yet...
Ghetts – ‘Conflict Of Interest’ review: the ghosts of grime past, present, and future
“I don’t wanna be the old guy on the block talking about what once was, and that’s why I search for new moments,” Ghetts...