Nov 27, 2017
By Frank Valish
Issue #62 - Julien Baker
“Is there something wrong with all of this, or is there something wrong with me?” Those are the sole lyrics to “New Deep,” the penultimate track on Everything Everything‘s fourth album. As gentle piano anchors a sparse, airy soundscape, frontman Jonathan Higgs sings the lines over and over in his inimitable falsetto, voice and message front and center. More
Nov 21, 2017
By Ed McMenamin
Issue #62 - Julien Baker
He wasn’t exactly depressed before he formed Protomartyr, frontman Joe Casey says, but he didn’t have a lot to look forward to, either. Eight years later, he’s 40, and his band is ready to release its fourth LP, Relatives in Descent, its first on Domino. More
Nov 20, 2017
By Kyle Mullin
Issue #62 - Julien Baker
Even before they settled on an approach for writing and recording their sophomore album, Christie Simpson and her bandmates in the rising New Zealand synth pop troop Yumi Zouma knew what they wanted to avoid. More
Nov 17, 2017
By Frank Valish
Issue #62 - Julien Baker
“Nothing is off limits. I think that’s what people should know.” This quote was given by Mackenzie Scott, artistically know as TORRES, in discussion of a particular lyric off her third album, Three Futures. But it very well could apply to Scott’s career as a whole. More
Nov 16, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
Issue #62 - Julien Baker
Benjamin Clementine‘s life story is absorbing to the point of distraction. Born and raised in London to a family of Ghanaian descent, the self-taught musician emerged from school with almost no qualifications, fell out with his family, and ended up living homeless in London and Paris. It was in the French capital he started down the road that took him to winning the Mercury Prize for his debut At Least for Now in 2015. More
