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My First Album
Jessica Winter
This debut is certainly very poppy, but also nods towards indie-rock, industrial and disco. Pigeonholing its creator is a tricky task If you’ve even the slightest interest in alternative music, it’s likely you’ll have heard Jessica Winter, even if you’ve not realised it. She’s worked with The Horrors, Fat White Family and The Big Moon, and also toured with acts as diverse as Death Grips and Rebecca Black. For the last...
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Tuff Times Never Last
Kokoroko
Whereas 2022's acclaimed debut Could We Be More presented a robust blend of jazz-derived improvisation and polyrhythmic Afrobeat energy, Tuff Times Never Last lowers the tempo and sweaty intensity to head towards a cross-section of smooth 1980s soul, swinging lovers rock and various, distinctly British past masters of funkiness (say, Cymande) for inspiration. There are obvious indicators of the London seven-piece's ongoing commitment to the spontaneity...
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Utopia
Gwenno
There's a couple of things that set Gwenno Saunders' fourth solo album Utopia apart from her previous projects. For one, it's primarily in English. Her 2014 debut LP Y Dydd Olaf was sung in Welsh and subsequent projects, 2018's Le Kov and 2022's Tresor, in Cornish. With lyrics recalling her adolescence spent in London, Las Vegas, Brighton and Cardiff, Utopia is an altogether more urban album, recounting experiences of nightclubs and bus rides and...
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Trouble
Gina Birch
Inspiring in its relentless invention, the sometime Raincoat’s second album wears its heart on its sleeve It’s somewhat surprising that Trouble is only the second solo album from Gina Birch - having been a musician and artist since the ’70s, she’s been causing "trouble" for the best part of 50 years. As part of The Raincoats, she was a part of the punk movement and their 1979 album has been wildly influential, most famously...
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