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.
SG Lewis – ‘times’ review: a reverent requiem to the dancefloor
If news of Daft Punk’s split left a helmet-shaped hole in your heart, the debut album ‘times’ from SG Lewis may offer some consolation....
Julien Baker – ‘Little Oblivions’ review: relentless catharsis and a reason to believe
When Julien Baker was ten years old she asked her father what depression felt like. He replied, “It’s like trying to fill in a...
Lael Neale – ‘Acquainted With Night’ review: a spare and astonishing portrait of a...
Lael Neale’s Twitter bio simply reads “Luddite”, which seems about right given the highly analogue creation of her second record, ‘Acquainted With Night’. Limited...
The Hold Steady – ‘Open Door Policy’ review: a jubilant rise to old heights
When Craig Finn sang “Damn right you'll rise again” back in 2005 on ‘Separation Sunday’, The Hold Steady’s second album, he was addressing Holly,...
45s of the week: Dua Lipa, Liz Phair, Dry Cleaning and more
Dua Lipa – 'We’re Good'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr47YisIsz8
On her lead single from ‘Future Nostalgia – The Moonlight Edition’, Dua Lipa discards the dancefloor for a tropical beach,...
Claud – ‘Super Monster’ review: young and in love in a shapeshifting world
Claud sounds nothing like a monster when they sing – quite the opposite – but upon learning that their debut album ‘Super Monster’ is...
Slowthai – ‘Tyron’ review: a little too much naval-gazing from the king of Northampton
For somebody who wasn’t much into school, on his second record ‘Tyron’, Slowthai hands in a project spanning subjects from history to psychology and...
The Weather Station – ‘Ignorance’ review: I’ll be your mirror, and the world’s
“I’ll be your mirror,” wrote Lou Reed in 1966, capturing the role of musical artist in four words. On the cover of her fifth...
Black Country, New Road – ‘For The First Time’ review: musical prodigies or pretentious...
‘For the first time’ is not a considered, conceptual album, say Black Country, New Road, but “a true document of what we were doing...
Arlo Parks – ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ review: the poetic London artist hooks you into...
“I see myself sitting beside you,” Arlo Parks says on the spoken-word opener to her debut album. And that’s exactly how it feels to...