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Album Review – Jehnny Beth – To Love Is To Live
Former Savages member Jehnny Beth is set to release her debut album To ‘Love Is To Live’ 12th June via Caroline International. This is no Savages though, this is all Beth. Her album and her music. A mash up of classical, Jazz, industrial, post punk and spoken word that span the world of sex, violence, …
Track: Oscar Jerome – Give Back What U Stole From Me
Oscar Jerome sure knows how to build up momentum. Hot on the heels of two recent singles, the glowing soulful ‘Sun for Someone’ and the politically charged ‘Your Saint’, comes a third teaser ‘Give Back What U Stole From Me’. This time around Jerome delivers some super pumped jazz funk, all clipped scat-rap, deep bass …
Track: Sophie Hunger – Everything is Good
Everything is Good is the name of a David Shrigley design, owned by Swiss multi-lingual singer-songwriter Sophie Hunger. It’s also the name of her new single, taken from her forthcoming album Halluzinationen, out on August 28th via Caroline International. Drawing comparisons to the likes of Sharon Van Etten is understandable when you listen to Everything …
Track: Jehnny Beth – Heroine
Singer-Songwriter, singer, and multi-disciplinary artist Jehnny Beth, best known for her work with her band Savages, has released the second single taken from her forthcoming album, ‘To Love Is To Live’, which has a new release date of June 12 via Caroline Records. Titled ‘Heroine’ it is produced by acclaimed producer Flood. About the track Beth …
Track: Oscar Jerome – Your Saint, plus album news
From the source that keeps providing, the South London nu-jazz scene, comes Oscar Jerome with his highly-anticipated debut album ‘Breathe Deep’ (release date July 10th 2020 via Caroline International). You might know Oscar from his work as guitarist with the spirited afrobeat collective KOKOROKO, another emerging force from the Trinity Laban/ Tomorrow’s Warriors jazz hothouses. …
See: Jehnny Beth reveals new video for Innocence
Taken from her soon to be released debut album To Love is To Live, out on June 12th via Caroline Records, Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth has released a video from her latest single to be taken from it, Innocence. It’s a dark, usually sparse affair, her vocal alternating between the bitter of the verse to …
Album Review: Mystery Jets – A billion heartbeats
Blaine Harrison wants to punch you in the face. But I don’t know, I don’t think he would. He seems too nice. He wants The Mystery Jets’ new album to “slam against your ear drums” with guitars that “feel like they are right there in front of you;” he says this album is “much more …
See: Oscar Jerome releases new video for ‘Sun for Someone’
Future soul/jazz superstar, Kokoroko member and Trinity Laban-trained classical guitarist Oscar Jermone release a new video/single Sun For Someone. It’s a commentary on climate change and environmental activism and comes as Oscar completes work on his hotly anticipated debut album, out later in the year via Caroline International. Sun for Someone is this fantastic slice …
See: Oscar Jerome reveals new video for Gravity, plus UK tour dates
On the back of a string of support slots around the UK for Kamasi Washington, Oscar Jerome has shared a new single, ‘Gravitate’, and released a video of him playing it live in the studio. It’s his first release since signing to Caroline International and comes ahead of his biggest headline show to date at …
Track: Tracey Thorn – Queen plus album news
It hardly seems seven years since Tracey Thorn’s last album, her festive collection of songs ‘Tinsel & Lights’. But that’s probably because I dig it out every year, each time a different track becoming my new favourite. In the time between we have seen her collaborate with the likes of Jens Lekman and John Grant, …