ALBUM: Lady Gaga ‘Joanne’
Rating: She may have been living for the ‘Applause’ in 2013 when she released Artpop , but on her fifth studio album Joanne, Lady Gaga temporarily hangs up her mermaid bra and lays bare her ‘Diamond Heart’. The album marks…
Tag: Florence Welch
LIVE: Florence + The Machine, Alexandra Palace 22.09.15
As bold as the statement might be, why not get it out of the way before we begin: Florence Welch is our new Kate Bush. There, it’s been said. A third consecutive number one album and hugely successful stand-in Glastonbury…
THE REST OF: Florence + The Machine
Florence Welch, the idiosyncratic feminist icon; the woman full of happiness, glitter and magic. She is far from the ideally formed pop stars that have been formed for the record labels; she is her own structured self – she is…
EP: Emma Ballantine ‘Tourist’
Rating: Singer songwriter Emma Ballantine‘s recent EP release, Tourist, is the follow up record to her debut, Flying Machine – and is full of optimistic, folksy, melodic outpourings. Recorded at Monnow Valley Studio in Wales, and released on her own label (Shut Up Jo),…
ALBUM: Florence + The Machine ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’
Rating: After the long four years since Ceremonials – for both fans and Florence herself – Florence + The Machine are back with their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. It’s a return to reality for Welch, written straight…