There is something undeniably tasty about Amy-Jo’s latest release. Not just the riff of its chorus, playing so delectably on its title, ‘Dumb’, but the assured put-downs and playful interludes too. This is her response to the mansplainers and misogynists who would have her “sat on my phone in the dark”. The kind that likeContinue reading “Amy-Jo – Dumb”
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Annie Dressner – For the Thrill of It
Annie Dressner is not a new name to me. But her music is. And as with Demi Marriner, I wonder why it’s taken so long for her songs to land in my ear. For her latest release led me straight to her back catalogue. To a fabulously folky 2024 album which new single ‘For theContinue reading “Annie Dressner – For the Thrill of It”
Nia Nicholls – Goldilocks
In ‘Goldilocks’, the new single from Nia Nicholls, three bears are the least of her worries. Instead, taking the dialectical tension at the heart of the well-known fairytale, and subverting it in the context of a relationship, she highlights a man as the cause of her troubles. Using her inimitable style of light-hearted country-pop, sheContinue reading “Nia Nicholls – Goldilocks”
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