Tag: singer-songwriter
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Tommy Lefroy live at Assai Records review – a little too precarious
Performing for the first time in nearly two years, Tommy Lefroy sounded a little rusty for this low-key set in Edinburgh. Still, given the content of their promising new album The Precariat, maybe human imperfection was the whole point.
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Eleanor Moss live at SWG3 Poetry Club review – crystalline classical guitar songs dazzle up close
Eleanor Moss’s quietly fascinating songs about tenderness and violence inspired a stunned silence in the crowd for this powerfully intimate set at the Poetry Club. A full backing band is all that’s needed to elevate her already transfixing compositions.
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Searows live at Leeds Irish Centre review – minimalist atmospherics from indie folk’s new leading light
Searows’ beguiling new album provided the most compelling songs for this understated performance in Leeds. At his best, his broadly coastal-themed new songs sound windswept and epic. Other times, it’s more of a wishy-washy damp squib.
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‘Often the first thought you have is the best one’: Divorce on their instinctive, brilliant debut album
Felix and Kasper from Divorce discuss their critically acclaimed new album and the key to its occasionally baffling lyrics.
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Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me review – assured third album brims with singalong choruses
The ballads are few and far between on Maggie Rogers’ brilliantly written third record, which delivers one singalong belter after another. Don’t Forget Me doesn’t reinvent the singer-songwriter wheel, but what a fabulous wheel this particular album is.
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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.
