Mahalia - 'Jealous' ft. Rico Nasty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBGzYkHLRk
“From the Southside / Summer's outside, chillin' Westside” sings Mahalia on the first verse of ‘Jealous’ and whether borne out of fantasy or an earnest sketch of her native Leicester, it’s an endearing way...
It’s difficult to put your finger on why, but there’s something about the boom of podcast-listening that has often felt like a very ‘older millennial’ pursuit. Maybe it’s the quietly intellectual nature of the format, the focused concentration it...
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 to first takes on a 4-track cassette recorder, with little more than a vintage Omnichord...
No one knows character development quite like the witch. From the term being used to accuse women of performing dark magic, burning them at the stake and drowning them in rivers, to global pop stars using witchcraft to hex...
It’s a tale as old as time: a style many have tried to forget captures the imagination of a new generation and comes back with a vengeance. While throwbacks like vinyl, scrunchies and corduroy felt almost inevitable, few could...
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, the junkie hoodrat who drifts through their entire discography. He was also unknowingly addressing the...
The age-old concept of Difficult Second Album Syndrome is one that still haunts many artists today: how on earth do you follow up a great first record?
There are a wealth of artists, though, who have managed to return with...
I first came across Alberta Hunter while flicking through the $1 racks in the vast Hollywood branch of Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard. When I was living in Los Angeles it became a weekly ritual and, amongst the endless...
If you’re old enough to have been a music fan in the early noughties, there was likely a record that you’ll remember feverishly refreshing iTunes for. ‘Whatever People Say I Am’ or ‘Silent Shout?’, ‘Back To Black’ or ‘The...
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, all scuttling crabs and shuffling beats. “I’m on an island,” she begins, in case it...