I was born into riffage. When I was in the womb, my mum blew a pair of speakers vacuuming to Led Zeppelin. Before I’d even taken a breath, Page and Bonham were making waves in my amniotic fluid and rocking my world. As a...
Category - Music
There is a knock at the door long after the time when door-knocking is acceptable. You expect the worst: a motorist with a furry question mark draped limply across outstretched arms, and a face widened and ghoulish with...
One of my favourite podcasts is called the Mystery Show. In each episode, Starlee Kine attempts to solve a mystery where the answer can’t be found online (check out the belt buckle episode!). The show only lasted six episodes...
In 2025, I got to watch some incredible performances from legendary artists like Stevie Wonder and Laaraji to pivotal bands who opened up new sonic worlds for me as a teenager like The Beta Band, The Flaming Lips and Tortoise to...
I’ve found myself drawn to more reflective and meditative music in 2025. It’s felt necessary to lose myself in carefully crafted soundscapes, to be absorbed in other sonic worlds. I have happily discovered albums that...
Trellick Tower held between overhead wires, bright brittle chords, symbols crashing, accelerated greens, parkland amongst the scrubs, weeds amongst the rubble. Industrial skeletons, structures exposed, and a fiddle bows in a...
Another year has passed and, once again, it’s been soundtracked by remarkable works of art from musicians still finding new ways to express themselves and connect with listeners. The albums compiled here, those I’ve...
2024 was another year of incredible live music, spanning intimate performances to crowd-pleasing festival sets to once-in-a-lifetime shows. I got to witness a 17-year-old guitar prodigy at the start of her career and a...
Second-hand records are stories. Each one contains some trace of its previous owners in its grooves. It could be a first kiss, maybe even ‘their song’, or the time she realised she could lose herself completely in...
Here are the albums that soundtracked my 2023. They were there through moments of great joy and times of deep sadness, provided places to reflect or forget, seek solace or catharsis. They made me dance, laugh and cry. They were...