Bonjour Motherfuckers #29 – BPM edition
What’s another year?, Johnny Logan famously asked in 1980. Whatever the way you choose to measure it in...
Features
Cassette Culture: November 2022
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
Interview: Special Interest and their intense and intentional new album Endure
On the release day of their flamboyant new album Endure, New Orleans quartet Special Interest were in London...
Interview: Low Island guide us through Life In Miniature
Earlier this month, Oxford indie quartet Low Island released their latest album, Life in Miniature on their own label, Emotional Interference. Kristy Sawyer connected over Zoom with lead singer Carlos in his North London studio while the others chipped in over email, telling the story of its creation.
18 songs that display Mimi Parker as the beating heart of Low
The music world was quietly rocked this weekend when news broke that Mimi Parker – drummer, vocalist and founding member of Low – had passed away.Â
Festival Preview: 10 artists to watch at Le Guess Who? 2022
With the touring industry in complete shambles, many venues and festivals have been working overtime to still make...
Bonjour Motherfuckers #28 – BPM edition
The other day I got an email about year-end lists and my reaction was a mix of “already?”...
Cassette Culture: October 2022
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
A Trail Of Blood and Amens: Revisiting Tori Amos’ Scarlet’s Walk at 20
Two decades after its release, Jasper Willems takes a look back at Tori Amos’ seventh album Scarlet’s Walk, her cross-country navigation of post-911 America. Disguised as a lush, wide-eyed road trip, it is actually one of the acclaimed songwriter’s most affecting and politically-charged chapters
Track-by-Track: Jade Imagine give the rundown on new album Cold Memory
Aussie outfit Jade Imagine capture a breadth of lived experience through their simmering indie anthems. The group’s new...
