Album Review: Time Flies by Ladyhawke

A lot has happened in the life of Pip Brown in the last five years. In the half-decade that has elapsed since her last outing as Ladyhawke, she has experienced the extremes of motherhood through the elation of a new born and the lows of postnatal depression, not to mention facing a skin cancer diagnosis. She has spoken with refreshing candour about these challenges, but we have not heard from her in musical form up until now.

Full Review >>

Retaining a less garish direction throughout her first two albums, Wild Things would dabble with a more fun-loving sensibility, one that finds further mileage fourth time around with Time Flies. Drawn as a response to recent personal battles, such as contending with post-natal depression and a skin cancer diagnosis, Brown tacks to a series of instant dancefloor hook lines as an antidote; the latent cynicism of recent outings traded for all-out shimmer. In doing so, Ladyhawke opts for an accessibility that has been an ongoing undercurrent in her work, a template not dramatically altered but open to a sense of variety here.

Full Review >>