| ⭐⭐✨ | The indie singer-songwriter has almost become a trope in and of itself over the last decade or so. The image of a weathered looking guy or girl with a beaten-up acoustic guitar, sporting torn items of clothing and crooning in painful detail about love in the philosophical sense is not a rarity.ContinueContinue reading “The tendency to meander: Aldous Harding – Train on an Island *ALBUM REVIEW*”
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Bloated, but improved: Noah Kahan – The Great Divide *ALBUM REVIEW*
| ⭐⭐⭐ | Noah Kahan harks back to a not-too-distant era of popular culture that feels almost surreal to look back on. His usually flannel-clad, man bun and beard presentation brings only one word to mind when I see it: “hipster”. You know them. They’re the kinds of dudes asking you if you’ve heard ofContinueContinue reading “Bloated, but improved: Noah Kahan – The Great Divide *ALBUM REVIEW*”
English Remi Wolf: Lola Young – I’m Only F**king Myself *ALBUM REVIEW*
| ⭐⭐⭐✨ | Okay, that title is probably clickbait. It was the first thing I thought of when I first caught wind of this upcoming songstress on her breakout single ‘Messy’. Her sassy, cursive singing style paired with her sunny, quirky indie pop is an instant comparison in my mind. Not to reduce Lola toContinueContinue reading “English Remi Wolf: Lola Young – I’m Only F**king Myself *ALBUM REVIEW*”
A surprising regression: shame – Cutthroat *ALBUM REVIEW*
| ⭐⭐✨ | A band that has always promised, shame has made a point of never treading old ground. Even if the temptation burns, they have found a way consistently to bend expectations for their listeners. When shame first hit the scene, they possessed a certain naivete that endeared their music. Undulating between fuzzy post-punkContinueContinue reading “A surprising regression: shame – Cutthroat *ALBUM REVIEW*”
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