All the news last night & this morning seems to revolve around The Grammys – not that it’s surprising, of course. But it had slipped my mind it was even on. I’m more of an Oscars/Golden Globes man myself, despite my obvious obsession with music.

I’m not one to piss and moan about award ceremonies too [...]

Having already seen comparisons to Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson and Martha Wainwright, the wonderful Lail Arad is a 26 year-old singer/songwriter from London-via-Israel. She couples sophisticated folk/ pop with some wonderfully sharp & funny lyrics. She’s already performed an impromptu version of her song ‘Winter’ alongside Devendra Banhart and is gearing up for the release [...]

I have decided that this year I will choose one album a month to make my end of year list so much easier to collate. Kind of makes sense as by December I struggle to remember what blew me away in January. With that in mind and all things considered, my first essential album of [...]

No major departures from album 1, then? I wasn’t looking for a dramatic shift, but this feels incredibly familiar and lacks the punch of their early singles. Of course, this single might not be representative of the new material. Maybe it was released first as a sort of committee decision based on its similarity to [...]