If you had asked yourself who the biggest breakout pop star of 2020 was going to be, you might not have predicted Phoebe Bridgers. It’s nothing to do with her or her talent; a quick-witted lyricist and a hilarious...
In some ways, the space-age concept of Doja Cat’s third album makes total sense. Like an adventurous space traveller hopping between planets, the Californian rapper and singer never lingers too long on a genre or song. Her tracks possess...
Near-chaos, violence covered in sugar and candy. That’s how Bruce Springsteen once described Wall of Sound records, and on ‘Death Of A Cheerleader’, Pom Pom Squad pursue that description to its extreme. “It hits me and it feels like...
Cast your mind back to this time last year. We were easing our way out of the first (of many) lockdowns and ‘tinnies in the park’ replaced what was set to be an incredible summer of music. As 2020...
I don’t remember the first time I listened to Joni Mitchell singing ‘A Case of You’ but I acutely remember the first time I understood it.
“I could drink a case of you, darling / And I'd still be on...
Diligent diarists have a secret weapon: an exclusive spyhole to the past, the view relatively unobscured. 26-year-old Lucy Dacus typed up thirteen of her teenage diaries, deploying their contents with unflinching vigour on her third album, ‘Home Video’.
That Dacus...
You’ve definitely, absolutely heard Sister Nancy’s 'Bam Bam'. A huge crossover reggae hit from 1982 that will most likely be played on every single soundsystem over the course of your average Notting Hill Carnival weekend, it’s also been sampled...
Ever had that feeling that everybody you’ve ever known is headed to the same gig? If you were scrolling Twitter on June 1st — the day that Primavera Sound 2022 went on sale — you may well have assumed...
Cast your minds back to your first breakup… the world crumbling around you, everything you thought you knew about love was a lie, where did it all go wrong? One pop star knows all about that experience and shared...
Joy Crookes – ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFCcnYSCyE
Don’t be fooled by the Wall of Sound and the throwback soulful feel: ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’ is a track that drips with irony, skewering performative activism – “Put my name...