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When you truly let your guard down, you risk a flood of emotive material, which could be why Becca Mancari’s second record ‘The Greatest Part’ took just two months to write. Yet it’s no rush job. Her candour gives...
Denai Moore occupies a dark, stately throne on the cover of her third album, ‘Modern Dread’. The tendrils of her silver headpiece twist away to infinite lengths, implying a connection to the outer world as well as entrapment within...
As Tammy Wynette almost once said, sometimes it’s hard to be a country music fan. Thank goodness then for the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck and Margo Price, the Grammy-scooping, LSD-dropping space cowgirl, lonesome masked rider and hard-grafting...
As many of us count down the days until we can be back down the front at a gig, some music fans are wondering if the thing they love is gone for good.
Kanye West – 'Wash Us In The Blood' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0U2QUGKbSE When Kanye's name starts flashing up in your news feed, you never really know what's going to be at the other end of the click. Maybe he's dropped something that lives up...
Opening and closing their third album with the plaintive call of a saxophone, Haim know that life often goes in cycles. One minute you’re up, the next you’re down; life hands you a third record, and then it deals...
In the midst of a global pandemic that’s ground the live music industry to a halt, it’s important now, more than ever, that people who can afford to buy music do so. Since the pandemic hit, Bandcamp have waived...
Lockdown was quite the trip. Providing a whole lot of time for self-reflection, here's what some of our favourite musicians learned from all that time spent alone. Jehnny Beth "In isolation I have learned about the value of solitude. 'Isolation is the...
Francis of Delirium’s debut EP ‘All Change’ delves deep within. 18-year-old songwriter Jana Bahrich, being thirty years junior to her collaborator Chris Hewett, have generation-spanning scope, striking the balance between instrumental experience and the cracked-open ache of adolescence. This...