Tag: Pop
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Billy Nomates: “CACTI” album review – surviving it all with weird organs and upright pianos
A dark cloud hangs over Nomates’ new CACTI as her introspective thoughts seep out onto a lurid colour of distaste and melancholic swagger. A character once-manifested Billy Nomates (real name Tor Maries) has been delivering moody material since her self-titled debut in 2020. While her first took swings at our lives’ social expectations, her follow-up […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 09/12
As the weather turns to frost, we delve into one of the last remaining Fridays’ of the year. Featuring Sam Ryder’s debut There’s Nothing But Space, Man, SZA’s SOS and singles from Paramore, Lana Del Ray, Gorillaz and The Lathums. SPACE MAN: In keeping the dream alive, Eurovision star and TikTok mogul Sam Ryder paints […]
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The 1975: “Funny in a Foreign Language” album review – at their most earnest…
Manchester-based collective The 1975 return with their fifth Funny in a Foreign Language. Lauded with love, it is a soft-rock pop peppering that is every bit cliché as it is concise. From appropriating Black Lives Matter movement to promote and sell his own music to digesting raw meat on stage, frontman of shoelace noodling alternative […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 11/11
Another week passes in the week of November, more keenly spirited autumnal indie spires to get stuck into! Christine and the Queens: A high-brow musing of poignant and playful electronic-pop comes into the frame this week with Christine and the Queens’ Redcar les adorables étoiles, loosely translated to “lover souls.” Something that Florence Welch can […]
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Taylor Swift: ‘Midnights’ Majesty with 11th Number One
Midnights, featuring stand-out sorrows, Anti-Hero and dizzying pop Lavender Haze, has had the biggest release week in almost seven years – selling over 1.5million copies. “…a shimmering return to pure pop.” A pop phenomena all in herself, who managed to seamlessly cross from country to pop mainstream, has entered the record books again as Midnights […]