Category: music essays
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Every Mercury Prize 2024 nominee, ranked
With the Mercury Prize, awarded to British and Irish albums on musical merit alone, approaching next month, Undertone takes a look at the twelve nominees. Which make for the most complete, artistically masterful album? And, more importantly, which one will be chosen to win?
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Britain’s new age indie scene – a new sound is on the rise and you don’t want to miss out
A new wave of indie music has been brewing and the potential isn’t barred by any limits. Indie music has been huge in the UK for as long as I remember, but new factors are changing the sound of the new up-and-coming talent into something completely different. By Matthew Rowe.
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Songs for solitude: alone on a mountain with Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher
Completely alone for the night on a remote mountain summit in the Lake District, there was only one album I needed to listen to: Phoebe Bridgers’ 2020 release, Punisher.
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