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freelance editor and journalist, previously contributing editor at @NME (they/them).
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"Matty Is Always Five Steps Ahead!" Tobias Rylander On 10 Years Of Working With The 1975

"Matty Is Always Five Steps Ahead!" Tobias Rylander On 10 Years Of Working With The 1975

Clash — If you were on Tumblr circa 2014, you'll remember exactly how to identify The 1975: one glowing rectangle lighting up the silhouette of one raggedy-haired frontman. That was the genius of Tobias Rylander, who has been the band’s creative director for over a decade.
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Kesha - Gag Order

Kesha - Gag Order

Clash — How does one end an era working under the thumb of your alleged abuser? This will be the last record popstar Kesha releases on Kemosabe, the record label of Lukasz 'Dr Luke' Gottwald. No one would have blamed her if she released some wank album as a glorious middle finger to Dr Puke, or squandered as much of his budget as humanly possible.
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Bringing It Home: Temps' James Acaster Interviewed

Bringing It Home: Temps' James Acaster Interviewed

Clash — James Acaster used to believe his music career was over. "Music is what I originally wanted to do," he explains. "It definitely felt like something that I had resigned myself to..." Before becoming the household comedian he is today, Acaster had grown up drumming in numerous bands.
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Live Report: Big Thief - eventim Apollo, London

Live Report: Big Thief - eventim Apollo, London

Clash — Seated smack bang in the middle of the eventim Apollo's stalls, the stage looks rather underdressed against the grandeur of the hall tonight. The backdrop is bare, there are guitars and double basses cluttered around the place. No frills, but not exactly nothing.
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Scouting For Growth: mui zyu Interviewed

Scouting For Growth: mui zyu Interviewed

Clash — They fuck you up, your mum and dad - how is it they can fuel you, too? On top of a Chinese restaurant in Kent, Eva Liu was often serenaded to sleep by the clatter of cooking, the amiable chatter of dining customers, and the nocturnal mahjong games downstairs.
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Live Report: Caroline Polachek - eventim Apollo, London

Live Report: Caroline Polachek - eventim Apollo, London

Clash — February 14th wasn't just Valentine's Day this year: more importantly, it was the release date for Caroline Polachek's second solo album, 'Desire, I Want To Turn Into You'. That was no coincidence, either - 'Desire...' narrates the mascara-stained spirals of love and lust with Polachekian yowls and grand choruses.
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Raye - My 21st Century Blues

Raye - My 21st Century Blues

Clash — My 21st Century Blues is the debut record that should have been released years ago. In June 2021, Rachel Keen took to Twitter to reveal her four-album deal with Polydor had yet to bear a single album, despite being signed for nearly seven years.
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Warner Bros. Discovery scores Amazon France content deal

Warner Bros. Discovery scores Amazon France content deal

Broadcast Magazine — ‘Warner Pass’ will give Prime members access to HBO and Discovery channels via subscription from 2023
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For The People In The Back: Role Model Interviewed

For The People In The Back: Role Model Interviewed

Clash — Tucker Pillsbury has enough to deal with as it is - an ordinary person passing through the self-doubt of their mid 20s, he now has to navigate the hype that comes with being ROLE MODEL, perhaps the year's defining future-pop phenomenon.
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Live Report: Fred again.. - O2 Academy Brixton, London

Live Report: Fred again.. - O2 Academy Brixton, London

Clash — 'FRED, SPUNK ON MY FACE!', blared a tatty paper sign in big, blue hand lettering. If you want any evidence of the fervour that's built around Fred again.., look no further than the lad behind me, who held the sign for a good ten minutes before the DJ was due.
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Live Report: Pitchfork London 2022

Live Report: Pitchfork London 2022

Clash — Pitchfork Festival returns to London for an eclectic multi-venue spectacular, one that moves from avant-jazz skronk through to a revered ambient great via post-punk, left field hip-hop and more. Our reviewer Alex Rigotti tops up their Oyster card in pursuit of musical excellence...
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Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)

Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)

Clash — Fred again.. took on the impossible task of soundtracking lockdown for an entire generation with' Actual Life 1′ back in 2020. London's Fred Gibson infused intimate, diverse voice notes with smooth, glossy shades of house music to much acclaim. Now on the back of and multiple hit songs, Gibson comes full circle on 'Actual Life 3'.
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FLOHIO - Out Of Heart

FLOHIO - Out Of Heart

Clash — After six years of diligently posting EPs, Bermondsey-based FLOHIO releases her debut album, 'Out Of Heart'. With help from executive producers God Colony and Speech, FLOHIO steps into the realm of alt-rap to release a project brimming with dynamic, left-field energy marking her as one to watch.
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Bellah is on the rise

Bellah is on the rise

The Line of Best Fit — North London-born Bellah is putting her own stamp on left-field R&B. It's a sweltering day and Bellah - aka 25-year-old Isobel Akpobire - is sat inside her car, cracking jokes and being her charming self. Though she's been putting out music since 2019, her first big hit was a COLORS session.
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Julia Jacklin - PRE-PLEASURE

Julia Jacklin - PRE-PLEASURE

Clash — At 31, Julia Jacklin has managed to secure herself as one of Australia's most well-known singer-songwriters . Blending folk and indie rock with equal parts irreverence and sincerity, Jacklin's music usually painfully excavates her inner anxieties. On her third album, 'PRE-PLEASURE', this neurotic approach to her relationships are surveyed, all to ask: what does all this analysis and effort result in?
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The Koreatown Oddity - ISTHISFORREAL?

The Koreatown Oddity - ISTHISFORREAL?

Clash — Though he's been making music for years, Dominique Purdy formally introduced himself into the underground experimental rap scene as The Koreatown Oddity with 2020's 'Little Dominique's Nosebleed'. It was a masterclass in modern narrative, following Purdy as he recounted how two car accidents forever altered his life in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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"We Just Wanted To Make Something Beautiful" Gwenno Interviewed

"We Just Wanted To Make Something Beautiful" Gwenno Interviewed

Clash — One week in January 2020, Gwenno Saunders dumped her bags in an artist's cottage in St. Ives and found herself having a crisis. She was there to write her third solo album, and had grown up speaking Welsh and Cornish fluently in her hometown of Cardiff.
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Live Report: PC Music Vol. 3 Showcase (Or The State Of Hyperpop Address)

Live Report: PC Music Vol. 3 Showcase (Or The State Of Hyperpop Address)

Clash — The image of this PC Music showcase will surely be burned into my mind the way people remember American jazz clubs in the 20s. Except instead of handsome men sucking on pungent cigars and talking business and the mundanity of domesticity, I watch twinks in Keith Haring print shirts puff banana-flavoured vapes furiously as they talk about the logistics of facilitating the PC Music Discord.
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Bartees Strange - Farm To Table

Bartees Strange - Farm To Table

Clash — Fluidity has permeated the life of Bartees Leon Cox Jr. for much of his life. As a military brat, he would bounce across Europe, and migrate along different pockets of America. He would flow between different dreams, too - sports journalism, public communications.
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Live Report: Lorde - Roundhouse, London

Live Report: Lorde - Roundhouse, London

Clash — After weeks of studying Lorde's live shows on TikTok, the Kiwi pop star finally landed in England to begin the European leg of her Solar Power Tour. At the final show of her three-night Roundhouse residency, Lorde pulled out all the stops to prove why she'll remain a part of pop history.
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Angel Olsen - Big Time

Angel Olsen - Big Time

Clash — "I'm loving you big time", Angel Olsen declares on her latest record, 'Big Time'. It's a liberating proclamation of love in a field of overgrowing loss for the musician. After years of grappling with her sexuality, Olsen came out to her parents, where her father passed three days later; shortly afterwards, so did her mother.
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Jeshi - Universal Credit

Jeshi - Universal Credit

Clash — "Sick of things going wrong and never going right," muses Jeshi on his debut. "Why are they never going right?" So goes 'Universal Credit', a diary of London life narrated by Jesse Greenway, currently 27 years old. It's easy to write off much of the album's content as another hedonistic album - there's bars aplenty alluding to partying, girls, all the usual sorts.
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keshi - GABRIEL

keshi - GABRIEL

Clash — A graduate of the bedroom producer generation, Casey Luong flourished as keshi, a singer-songwriter who incorporated trendy, lo-fi beats, and turned them into melancholic tales of yearning and love. Coupled with his desire for more complex guitar lines and his soft croons, keshi won legions of fans on Soundcloud, where he released a string of successful singles and EPs dating all the way back to 2018.
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FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS

FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS

Clash — "I wanted to die, I'm just being honest", confesses FKA twigs on her latest record. After a gruelling admission to being abused by Shia Labeouf , Tallulah Barnett has picked up the pieces of her emotions and collated them in her new mixtape, CAPRISONGS.
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