We race here! We race there! We tell ourselves we are giving life its introspective due but are we really when we rarely stop to even breathe? Truth is, we often don’t out the brakes on long enough to ruminate about life, but thankfully a number of very talented and Continue Reading
Music
Songs, songs and more songs #73: Poppy Ajudha, Crooked Colours, L D R U, Whats So Not, Lamalo + Eurovision update!
Listening to music is a joy. It may not always engender feelings of joy because let’s face it life is never that universally good, and so neither are the songs that given expression to it, but the actual immersion into music is one of life’s great pleasures. It’s even when Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #72: Jessie Ware, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Two Door Cinema Club, Cryalot, Tove Lo + new ABBA lyric video “Dancing Queen”
Is it possible for deliciously upbeat and ridiculously, infectious pop to actually say something worthwhile? Absolutely it is. While there is a slew of songs that add considerable weight to that idea, I give the five songs in this post that all combine music full of energy and life that Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #71: Yb., Yuna, Låpsley, FELIVAND, Madeline the Person
Falling in love, and yes, also sadly falling out of it, do tend to lend themselves to songs that are happy to take their time ruminating on what’s good, and not so good, about all thing romantic. These five songs from five thoughtfully expressive artists, who know their way around Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #70: Tessa Violet, Dagny, Alfie Templeman, Metric, Marshmello + Khalid … and the latest ABBA lyric videos + Eurovision 2023 news!
Life is tricky to navigate – that’s hardly a newflash. But as we grind our way through the ups and downs of life, we often have to remind ourselves of the good and the wonderful, or if they are in short supply, that it’s okay to embrace life’s lows because Continue Reading
This #ChristmasInJuly, I listened to the festive music of KT Tunstall
Generally speaking, if people hate Christmas music, they really hate it, and the idea of asking them, especially if they’re a musical artist of the standing of Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, to record any sort of Christmas music is anathema. Burn down the Christmas tree, throw the eggnog down the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #69: Nina Nesbitt, Seraphina Simone, Ashe, Cate Canning, Imagine Dragons + latest ABBA lyric video
Wearing your heart on your sleeve sounds like a noble and brave thing to do, a repudiation of hiding yourself away from the world and saying “Here I am. This is me and I’m proud of who I am.” It might be scary to do, but these five artists have Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly Christmas album review redux: Warmer in the Winter by Lindsey Stirling
There are quite a few festive things that, right at home in the depth of a northern hemisphere winter, are almost comically out of place in a southern hemisphere summery Christmas. Take chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Or walking in a winter wonderland perhaps? Or even dashing through the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #68: Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maggie Rogers, Betty Who, MUNA + new ABBA lyric video for “SOS”
It’s been a rough two years and an even rougher few weeks and I honestly I need some upbeat, effervescent pop joy in my life. Thankfully songs like the five in this post, which have come to my attention via YouTube, music blogs and Shazam-ing TV shows, means that the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #67: Tove Lo, The Knocks, Khalid, Alesso, Lizzo + Kate Bush goes to #1 thanks to Stranger Things S4a
Music and lyrics go together beautifully. Hardly a seismic statement lyrically to remake history since d’uh of course they do, but there’s something about these five near-perfect songs that remind you how good it is when just-so lyrics meet perfectly-realised music. When that happens, and it’s not always a given, Continue Reading