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album review: billy nomates – CACTI (published on Joyzine)
Just over two years since her triumphant debut, Billy Nomates, the alias of Bristol-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, explores the emotional complexities of life in her second studio album CACTI, released on 13 January 2023 via Invada Records. More introspective than her first album, CACTI is a danceable, post-punk confrontation of uncomfortable truths as well as the terrifying…
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ALBUM REVIEW: PUZZLE – THE ROTTEN OPERA
Puzzle is the solo project of Fletcher Shears, who comprises one half of experimental and genre defying band The Garden along with his twin brother Wyatt. Hailing from Southern California, the duo, along with their respective solo projects, have gained a reputation for producing non-conforming, punk-influenced songs that swing from DnB, to hip-hop, to jungle,…
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HEARTWORMS: an artist you need to know
Having recently signed to cult indie label Speedy Wunderground, London-based musician and poet Jojo Orme AKA Heartworms’ first fully-fledged single Consistent Dedication combines the gothic with post-punk in a way that can only be described as gloomy, jolting, yet undeniable dance-worthy. I stumbled across Heartworms, the band of London-based musician and poet Jojo Orme, when…
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Gig Review: Lime Garden at Patterns, 16/11/2022
Whipping up a dance frenzy to their genre-crossing, high energy tunes, the Brighton-based four piece are certainly a band to watch out for in 2023. In their sold out mid-week show at Patterns in Brighton, the crowd were in safe hands for a good time from the get-go. Support from Vanity Fairy and Blood Wizard…
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Gig Review: Pussy Riot at EartH, 6/11/2022
Pussy Riot, the feminist art-punk collective hailing from Moscow, have a history of a championing LGBTQ+ and women’s rights as well as publicly standing against Russian president Vladimir Putin. Three of its members, Maria Alyokhina (author of Riot Days, an account of her time in Russia’s criminal system), Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, made global…
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Puma Blue’s ‘Hounds’: Dreamy, Jazzy, and Dark
Puma Blue, the musical alias of London-born Jacob Allen, released his latest single ‘Hounds’ last week. Its melodic yet minimalistic bassline combined with jazzy, textured guitars and a slow build up of saxophone creates a brooding and somewhat melancholic atmosphere that is almost impossible not to lose oneself in. Resonances of Radiohead combined with Allen’s…
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Music & Happiness: An ode to hangover anxiety
Songs to help those morning-after blues “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life” Jean Paul Friedrich Richter We’ve all been there. As I’m typing this, I’m in the pits of a post-night out hole of anxiety, self-loathing, and fearing I will never make anything worthwhile out of my life. I know that…
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Gig Review: All Points East Festival, 2022
Yesterday, my housemates and I made the last-minute decision to go to All Points East, a multi-day music festival in Victoria Park. We went on the day that Tame Impala was headlining. After a series of alcohol-related trials and tribulations and getting a bit too carried away to dancing to Beyonce’s Renaissance album, we got…
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Shoegaze in 2022
Originating in the late 1980s and characterised by its floaty and ethereal vocals and heavily distorted guitars, Shoegaze is probably one of my favourite genres. As someone who plays the guitar, I never get bored of trying to figure out all the layers and textures of effects pedals that are used by bands like the…
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