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Album Review: Doja Cat – Vie

Mary Chiney·October 2, 2025

Doja Cat has always been hard to pin down. Her rise was shaped by meme virality, sharp-tongued rap...

Larry McClain·July 14, 2025

Maren Morris is (to my ears) the best singer in all of pop today. If her recent single...

John Wohlmacher·April 23, 2024

To uncoil the wild little everything inside this now, which I am crouching to fit into. Three forty seven a.m....

John Wohlmacher·November 16, 2023

A group of people, wailing, dancing – dancing! Excitement and bright colours, which give way to the bright...

Tom Williams·March 27, 2023

Lana Del Rey’s 2012 debut Born To Die was the album that gave birth to a seemingly endless...

John Wohlmacher·October 24, 2022

The Kuleshov effect is a cinematic experiment that aligns the image of a man’s expressionless face with a...

Andy Johnston·February 16, 2022

It’s become a well worn cliché in music journalism circles to point out that Spoon are the single...

Rob Hakimian·August 25, 2021

Lorde is in an ivory tower. Living in far-flung New Zealand, not wanting for money, seemingly without desire...

Jasper WIllems·July 16, 2021

Clairo‘s inclination towards subtlety and nuance appears severely at odds within today’s frantic attention economy. Claire Cottrill, a...

Tim Sentz·March 19, 2021

A decade into stardom and it feels like we still don’t really know Lana Del Rey. We know...