Life huh? Comes with all kinds of nasty baggage, unadorned reality and a distinct lack of glitzy everything at times; not exactly the kind of thing you want to dive into without some reassuring backup. Which is where these five gorgeously-good artists come in, people who muse in a Continue Reading
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Dear friends, you are now about to enter … a trippily colourful Willy Wonka chill-hop video
The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is fabulously trippy, gloriously imaginative and gleefully & subversively over the top, channelling the manically clever of Roald Dahl, on whose book the classic is based, perfectly. Everything from the giddily colourful visuals to the brilliance of Gene Wilder’s superlative Continue Reading
Now this is music #112: CHINAH, Nicole Millar (feat. Muki), ViVii, CYN, Allie X
There is an unfortunate tendency, and this happens regardless of the creative medium used, to treat the quieter, more reflective voices as having less impact or worth than those who express themselves far more loudly and stridently. But that attitude does a disservice to people like the five music Continue Reading
Now this is music #111: Opia, Blair, Darwin Deez, Snow Patrol, Oliver Tree + Eurovision 2019 update
For songs to truly move you on all levels, they have to be the culmination of the perfect marriage of music and lyrics. Sure some songs get us dancing, and that’s wonderful, and others get us thinking about life, the universe and everything, but it’s the ones that combine Continue Reading
Now this is music #110: NONONO, Kirsten Ludwig, Alison Wonderland, Robyn, Miss Eaves + RIP Aretha Franklin
We all love music that lifts up, lightens the soul, stirs up the joyous and the good, stills the anxious and the bad. That kind of music is all the better when it’s accompanied by lyrics that speak to the human condition in authentic, accessible, profoundly touching ways. Too Continue Reading
Now this is music #109: Beach House, SOPHIE, Loomings, Pizzagirl, Animal Feelings
The scene: 2 or 3 a.m. or the languid period between, when life has slowed down, the thoughts of young men and women (and some of the more nocturnal oldies who’ve had nanna naps) turn to dreamy thoughts of life, the universe and everything. Obviously at this time of Continue Reading
Eurovision 2018 songs as the soundtrack to animated films? Yes please, and thank you!
Netta Barzali was a gloriously animated winner of Eurovision this year, bring spark, fun and quirky vivacity to a contest already rich in all three. So it makes perfect sense that YouTube user, known simply as reviewer, would marry up the songs from this year’s crop of artists with Continue Reading
Now this is music #108 – Sofi Tukker, Mr Kitty, Max Styler & Twerl, Bishop Briggs, Anna Lunoe
There’s something innately compelling about people with a strong sense of self. I’m not talking about arrogant souls who think they’re god’s gift to the universe, but rather people who are comfortable in themselves and at ease with expressing it. The five duos and artists in this post’s selection Continue Reading
Now this is music francaise: Cléa Vincent, Fishbach, Juliette Armanet, Burning Peacocks, Charlotte Gainsbourg #BastilleDay
Happy French National Day everyone! Known more commonly in English-speaking countries as Bastille Day, it is a celebration that has long had a form place in my heart. A student of French for the entire six years of high school, weekday occurrences of Bastille Day were spent watching French Continue Reading
Now this is music #107: 8 Graves, NoMBe, LIONE, Cōfresi, DNMO
I love artists who push the musical envelope, who dare to very much do their own thing but who also retain an ability to tap into the kind of humanity that makes the best pop songs so damn relatable. These five artists have all those qualities in spades, delivering Continue Reading