L a u r e l - Fire Breather
In a club: the pill still hasn’t kicked in. It’s been ages. You nibble at another. Nibble some more. Nibble it all. The first pills kicks in. Then the second. You’ve no control left. In a hairdresser:...
View ArticleShivum Sharma - Flicker (Bedroom Demo)
There’s something stunningly pure at play here: an undeniably straight, from-the-heart sound that instantly disarms cynical, snide sods like myself, and makes believers of us all. The song is by the...
View ArticleFreelove Fenner - All Things Break Through
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Warpaint – Love Is To Die At last a return for the all-female LA quartet and their rich folk-rock. On the evidence of…...
View ArticleXiu Xiu - Just Say I Love Him
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Warpaint – Love Is To Die At last a return for the all-female LA quartet and their rich folk-rock. On the evidence of…...
View ArticleBenjamin Clementine - Cornerstone
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View ArticleWoman's Hour - Thunder
Today, I’m going to have a good day. I get up early, no hangover. Tidy my room. Do some admin, do the washing. Drink tea, drink coffee, read the papers. Bacon. Eggs. A phone call. Read some of… (in...
View ArticleSeptember Girls - Ships
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. September Girls - Ships Garage rock is normally scuzzy and chaotic, the preserve of the untidy, the roughshod. But...
View ArticleArc Light - Waiste
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. September Girls - Ships Garage rock is normally scuzzy and chaotic, the preserve of the untidy, the roughshod. But...
View ArticleMRCAR/ACK - noodling, with papi
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. September Girls - Ships Garage rock is normally scuzzy and chaotic, the preserve of the untidy, the roughshod. But...
View ArticleRosie Lowe - Me & Your Ghost
Rosie Lowe‘s debut EP has arrived via 37 Adventures, and here’s the lead track. A scratchy, skewed number occupying the no-man’s-land between pop and r’n'b, it’s quietly arresting and happy in the...
View ArticleK H U S H I - You Say
London solo act Khushi has plenty of buzz going on right now. Never Never is only a B-side (to Magpie) but it’s the song of his I’ve liked most so far. The chatty lyrics, chantiness and lazy,...
View Articlekhushimusic - Never Never (B-side)
London solo act Khushi has plenty of buzz going on right now. Never Never is only a B-side (to Magpie) but it’s the song of his I’ve liked most so far. The chatty lyrics, chantiness and lazy,...
View ArticleHilang Child - Chaturanga
Here’s something sweet and slow, soarsome and awesome, for a Saturday morning. From Hilang Child‘s (aka London musician Ed Riman) debut EP, First Writings, out now on Third Rock, Chataranga has echoes...
View ArticleBROODS - Bridges
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Broods – Bridges First came Lorde, and now New Zealand delivers Broods, who are Auckland siblings Georgia and Caleb...
View ArticleNomadic Firs - All For Love
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Broods – Bridges First came Lorde, and now New Zealand delivers Broods, who are Auckland siblings Georgia and Caleb...
View ArticleTahana - Peculiar
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Broods – Bridges First came Lorde, and now New Zealand delivers Broods, who are Auckland siblings Georgia and Caleb...
View Article∴ The ꓃ ᑄ ꒛ ᗌ ∴ - Animal
Monday Music’s the one post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Broods – Bridges First came Lorde, and now New Zealand delivers Broods, who are Auckland siblings Georgia and Caleb...
View ArticleKALEIDA - THINK
Club music has undergone many changes this year, from the break-out of footwork to a grander, intense sound championed by the likes of Mount Kimbie. One vaguer trend has been the emergence of various...
View ArticleKALEIDA - TROPEA
Club music has undergone many changes this year, from the break-out of footwork to a grander, intense sound championed by the likes of Mount Kimbie. One vaguer trend has been the emergence of various...
View Articlecplnd - X
In the second half of Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, the journalist unintentionally stays in Varanasi indefinitely. Gradually, he becomes a typical resident of the Indian city: wearing...
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