Okay Kaya illustrates adolescence and self improvement on ‘Baby Little Tween’
It’s almost a shame, but to make music like Okay Kaya you have to be as glamorous as she is; a Cool Modern Woman: self-aware, a bit sad, beautiful. On…
Bill Callahan’s ‘If You Could Touch Her At All’ lacks resonance
Men with guitars. The standard can be so high. Messiahs of sex, of cool, their levels of influence are biblical. But then, Cohen and Dylan didn’t shout when other men,…
Rosalía’s ‘A Palé’ sees her rising to new heights
Content warning: sexual imagery Rosalía’s 2018 album El Mal Querer provided a sexy, jerking sound, much craved and thus fiendishly devoured at the feast of pop. Bland and tired attempts…
Juana Molina release entrancing EP ‘Forfun’
In Juana Molina’s first version of Paraguaya, someone is holding the corner of a silk, black dress, and then walking along the length of a polished old table, wooden, turning…
FKA Twigs releases biblical ‘home with you’
Women are of service to others, to men, to their bodies. They are repairing, devoting, they are punished. Rarely can we articulate this, be all of these things at once…
Cate le Bon is mesmerising on new track ‘Secretary’
This time of year, the slow transition from the end of the summer to the mossy depths of autumn is so closing and dull, a time for recovery, recuperation, nesting.…
Travis Scott releases ‘HIGHEST IN THE ROOM’
Travis Scott is God; cloud surfing, Kylie Jenner his holy Queen, their Calabasas cupid in her arms. It’s all plastic, they’ve broken up anyways and their separation is the PR…
DJ Shadow shares new single, ‘Rosie’
DJ Shadow’s latest single ‘Rosie’ takes place on a suburban high street. There’s a placid quietness and then, with no distant sound approaching and completely out of nowhere, an all-male…