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.
Lavender Diamond – ‘Now Is The Time’ review: indie-folk troupers return for a strangely...
You know how some songs sound like Christmas songs, but aren’t? ‘Now Is The Time’, the third album from LA folk-ish band Lavender Diamond,...
Rico Nasty – ‘Nightmare Vacation’ review: the sugar trap princess ready to upset the...
Ten seconds in to ‘Nightmare Vacation’, Rico Nasty spits, “I don't write reviews 'cause that's something y'all do,” a blunt reminder – or warning...
Yungblud – ‘weird!’ review: boring pop dressed up in better politics
With his Rocky Horror androgyny, expressive face and streaky hair, Yungblud often resembles the love-child of Gerard Way and Caitlin Moran. Live, he leaves...
45s of the week: Arlo Parks, Rina Sawayama, King Princess and more!
Arlo Parks – 'Caroline'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kYkFRYbaU
Like a friend relating an anecdote in the pub, Arlo Parks tells you quietly about the break-up she witnessed one day...
Miley Cyrus – ‘Plastic Hearts’ review: from pop princess to rock goddess… almost
“I was born to run / I don’t belong to anyone,” Miley Cyrus sings on ‘Midnight Sky’, the first single from her seventh album...
The Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Cyr’ review: a double album that shoots for the moon...
Marilyn Manson once said that Billy Corgan looks like Charlie Brown. Picture Charlie Brown as a glittery goth lord – if that’s hard to...
Megan Thee Stallion – ‘Good News’ review: living well is the best revenge
Good news is in short supply these days – which makes it the perfect title for an album that’s determined to buck the negative...
Tayla Parx – ‘Coping Mechanisms’ review: pop’s biggest songwriter gets all in her feelings
You definitely know Tayla Parx, even if you don’t think you do. Her fingertips are all over the pop world, writing songs for Ariana...
Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Copycat Killer’ EP review: Want to cry some more over ‘Punisher’?...
Phoebe Bridgers teased our tear ducts once already this month, covering Goo Goo Dolls ‘Iris’ with Maggie Rogers, a promised prize if Trump lost...
Babeheaven – ‘Home For Now’ review: summoning emotion to their sultry spaced-out world
https://youtu.be/5Oul_n2Iegc
You’re in the back of a car, you’re tipsy, it’s dark, and city lights flicker past the window, bright and brief and fuzzy at...