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Jessie Ware’s caressing voice is enough to make anyone fall in love, but she may struggle to maintain the spark.
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This past Saturday indie record stores gathered their stock and Record Store Day exclusives to serve thousands of vinyl-hungry punters around the world
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You may recognise him as Game of Thrones’ Grey Worm, but Jacob Anderson has a budding music career off-screen. His latest release as Raleigh Ritchie, the Black and Blue EP, has been remixed in its entirety by Syd Tha Kid and Matt Martian (a.k.a. The Internet) of Odd Future, and The Chased is a new addition. […]
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It sounds so fresh you could be fooled into thinking Spring just came around. Mapei’s finger-clicking positivity has come out of nowhere. She is relatively unknown, but the Rhode Island-born artist raised in Sweden follows her nordic countrymen in making pop music with a soul. She had success in 2008 with ‘Video Vixens’, and was […]
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This 20 year old vocal powerhouse may be more familiar to you as Cat Valentine from Victorious, but her voice has pushed her further than the Nickelodeon show. Ariana Grande’s velvet tone has landed her collaborations with MIKA on ‘Popular Song’ (momentarily resurrecting his career) and Mac Miller on summer hit, ‘The Way’. The duality […]
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Banks commands you to listen. You could try to focus on something other than her wincingly honest words but it is unavoidable. In defiance of the breathy soundscape her three-part harmonies create, her message hits hard and clear: she is unsure if she should wait for the relationship she longs for. It is this unapologetic […]
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Grace Shutti reviews James Blake’s gig in Heaven, a day after the release of his second album, Overgrown.