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Music Observer Friday highlights - 11.02.22

on February 12, 2022

Crawlers Friday highlights Grace Calver Jen Dixon MEMES Sam Lambeth

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The Music Observer 10: Looking back at 2021 [Singles]

on December 23, 2021

2021 best of BLAB Chloe Lorentzen Conscious Route Dictator Five O Fives Gefahrgeist Greysha MEMES retrospective The Florentinas The Howl and the Hum Wet Leg

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Twisterella 2021: Hyyts + Twist Helix + Jen Dixon + Jodie Nicholson + MEMES

on October 18, 2021

alternative festival Hyyts Jen Dixon Jodie Nicholson live music MEMES Twist Heilx Twisterella

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MEMES: So What

on May 18, 2021

alternative MEMES rock Scotland

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New release horizon scanner:

11/1/25 - Rosie Gault: Dim lights
29/1/25 - Dictator: Middle of the road (EP)
7/2/25 - Arliston: Disappointment machine (Album)
28/2/25 - Hachiku: The joys of being pure at heart (Album(

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Wolf Alice + Matt Maltese: UEA LCR, Norwich [Live]

Saturday night marked a live performance I'd been waiting for since April last year, from a band that have made a huge impact on me over the past 12 months. So I walked into the cavernous LCR with high expectations, but also with full confidence that Wolf Alice wouldn't let me down. It was a shame that I only caught the last few songs of the support set from Matt Maltese (due to unexpectedly early stage times) - I enjoyed what I saw. He and the rest of the trio were very skilled, present in the moment but relatively mellow, and provided a good base to ease the audience into the evening. Matt's a great pianist and has a very good voice, too - a smooth baritone. He ended his short set with an engaging performance of 'As The World Caves In' (throwing in a surprise by skilfully beginning it with a snippet from the Succession theme ). It's a moving song, and it was a thoughtfully delivered performance, capturing attention and holding it to the last note. Then, Matt ...

Carla Aakre: Through

Every so often a song comes along which leaves me speechless. 'Through' is one of those songs. Carla Aakre is a Helsinki-based singer-songwriter who has a profound and rare ability to focus in, very closely, on small details – brief, fleeing moments and gestures which paradoxically say so much. With a piece of music like this, I sometimes need time to let it sink in. There's an immediate reaction when I listen and am struck dumb; but I need to give some time and space before I come back and try to write something vaguely coherent. 'Through' begins (after a moment of studio chatter) with softened piano chords, accompanied by minimalistic drums and the hint of a violin note. That sound of strings is like a hanging moment of suspense, held in the air, balancing on the edge of something yet unexplored. It's an unrequited promise, a faraway glimpse of beauty. The remainder of the song develops in subtle waves, delicate rises and falls which lull us through the almos...

The Howl & The Hum: Same Mistake Twice [Album]

I last saw The Howl & The Hum (in the previous incarnation) in January 2022, when I also had the honour of chatting in person with Sam Griffiths . He told me then that a second album was coming and explained that there were only "vague ideas" being worked on at that point. Sam explained he wasn't sure if the album would be a 'Human Contact 2', something about Covid, or a record which would "encapsulate the future that's been stolen from us in a sense." Since then, a lot has changed. That band is no more, but TH&TH has continued nevertheless. And the promised album is now with us. 'Same Mistake Twice' has turned out to be a complicated, varied exploration of Sam's (and our) anxieties, particularly around image and what others think of him. In that sense — the way Sam is disarmingly open — TH&TH is continuing in a typical vein. But where 'Human Contact' felt at times jittery and even a little dark (though incredibly bea...

Music Observer: June & July '24 highlights

Falling behind is becoming a bit of a habit it seems… no matter, the music remains as good as ever! Here are a few of the songs which most impacted me in June and July. Both were very strong months for new music (yielding 72 and 60 songs for my lists, respectively), and so this selection was again very hard to narrow down… The full playlists are linked here . JUNE Catty - I Wish I Gave You Hell Here's what I wrote about this song for DIY's Neu Bulletin : "For the first few seconds of CATTY’s latest single, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re hearing a straightforward, fuzzy and fierce pop/rock song; there's an unsettling fade in, gently menacing vocals, and chugging power chords. But CATTY takes it much further, mixing in masses of colour and liberal sprinklings of surprise. There’s an organ and a piano appearing in the mix, well-judged vocal effects, pace changes and silences galore - plus a “woo-hoo” motif made for top-volume crowd singalongs. The result is an i...

Charlotte Carpenter: Awakenings [Interview]

I've been a fan of Charlotte Carpenter’s honest, engaging and absolutely beautiful music for some time now, and I recently had the pleasure of, finally, seeing her perform live. It was a full band show at Firebug in Leicester, and did not disappoint. She creates poetic, intense, beautifully dramatic music and words; and she invests fully, putting her whole self into that art. She’s also fully independent, and very proud of it. And that's how I described her in my write up of the gig which you can find over at Music in Leicester . Charlotte kindly spared some time to talk to me in the green room before she went on stage. She spoke frankly, and with a disarming directness. I started by asking her about her new album, ‘A Modern Rage’, and what it all means. Is it really, as some have written, all about a bad experience with a former producer? It’s not really about that … More importantly to me, ‘A Modern Rage’ is 11 songs about my own journey into womanhood. That does involve s...

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