Life is HARD. For all the ups, and they are sweet, there are plenty of downs and struggling can be everything. It helps then to have singers like the five featured here to not only help you make sense of it all, but to set their thoughts and ruminations to Continue Reading
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Songs, songs and more songs #82: Noah Kahan, Leanna Firestone, Arlo Parks, Gracie Abrams and Låpsley + new ABBA lyric video
Life comes with a LOT of emotions.Expressing them can sometimes feel all but impossible but that’s where we are lucky to be gifted with talented music artists who ponder and feel and articulate the deepest feelings of the human heart and pair it with music resonant it’s hard not to Continue Reading
Time for some Trustfall – P!NK previews new album with Kelly Clarkson
SNAPSHOTTrustfall is the upcoming ninth studio album by American singer Pink. The album is scheduled to be released on February 17, 2023, through RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from The Lumineers, Chris Stapleton and First Aid Kit. (courtesy Wikipedia) A new album from one of your favourite music Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #81: YARLIE, Ava Max, Sgt Slick, Laura Mvula and Montaigne + new ABBA lyric videos
Love is supposed to be always wonderful. That’s the PR anyway, and yes, it can be absolutely glorious when everything goes well as some of this post’s artists attest, but sometimes it’s a car crash in the midst of a natural disaster cratering towards an apocalypse, and we have no Continue Reading
Download. Play. Dance. Sing. My 20 favourite songs of 2022
I love music – all kinds and at all times. It is the literally the soundtrack to my life, making my exercise sessions more bouncy, melodic and upbeat, my commutes feel almost fun (and that takes some doing!) and those times when the world seems a little (or a lot) Continue Reading
On 9th day of Christmas … I listened to Debbie Gibson’s album Winterlicious
Put your own festive shine onto Christmas standards, honestly even new tracks you pen, is an often thankless task. Go too far towards what’s known and loved, and while you’ll likely end up with a perfectly pleasant collection of festive tracks, you’ll quickly get lost among the crush of retro Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #80: Christmas singles 2022 – Salem Ilese, Rachael & Vilray, Sigrid, Ingrid Michaelson & A Great Big World + Chord Overstreet
It’s almost Christmas people – like just two days to go woohoo! – and so, it seems fitting to end this year’s selection of songs I love with a selection of festive singles by artists who may not have an album but who have declared their love of the season Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I listened to the Estefan Family Christmas
The idea of a family recording a Christmas album, especially across multiple generations, is an enticing one since the season is, like many religious festivals, a communal one. This delightful idea finds perfectly warm and cosy form in the Estefan Family Christmas, the second Christmas album from the seven-time Grammy Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I listened to Snow Waltz by Lindsey Stirling
Christmas is supposed to be a thousand good and wonderfully light-as-air, joyously uplifting things. And while it often is – all that tree trimming, laughing with friends and brightness of decoration can only make you feel like a million festive bucks – there are at times when the actuality may Continue Reading
It’s the Little Things … ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus knits with Sir Ian McKellen again for Christmas
Ever since ABBA released Voyage, their first album in 39 years last year, and with it the daintily beautiful and highly emotive loveliness that is “Little Things”, Christmas has felt a whole lot more Swedishly festive than it used to do. That delightful feeling of ABBA in the heart of Continue Reading