I Listened To All The So Fresh CDs in One Sitting and This Is How I Felt
I’m in a car. Static hits my ear. Static becomes sound and sound becomes Christina Aguilera. Her powerful voice pushes through the scratchy radio of the of the decaying 1989…
Live Review: Cosmo’s Midnight with Kučka and Feki @ Jack Rabbit Slim’s
For those who came just to see Cosmo’s Midnight (and there were plenty), you’d be entitled to expect some alternative renditions, at least some simple synth looping, and more professionalism.…
Review: The Life of Pablo
For most of us, that part-fabricated, all-celebrity iconic soup marinates his entire identity, and unfortunately for The Life of Pablo, any alternative interpretation you could try scooping out of his…
SIA – This Is Acting (Inertia / Monkey Puzzle / RCA)
This is Acting probably seemed like a great idea on paper - Sia taking back songs that she’s written for others, and making them her own. But there is absolutely…
St LUCIA – MATTER (COLUMBIA RECORDS)
Hold on tight to your lycra and perms, kids because Synthpop is back. St Lucia's latest album 'Matter' takes the campiness and nostalgia of the 80s to the nth degree.
Interview: Beth Commons from pool boy
there's been so many occasions where i've been approached after a show and told that my stage presence is too 'domineering' or 'intimidating' because i stand still with my hands…
Preservation of the Soul through Pop, Personality and Punk
Where everything about Blackstar radiates a sense of maturity and mortality – from the disturbing bedridden music video for the album’s second single ‘Lazarus’ to the foreboding, anti-pop instrumentals –…
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us
David Bowie’s role in music was one of the weightiest to ever come careening into western culture as we know it today. His death, concluding a concealed 18-month battle with…
Interview: Words With Mei Saraswati
Gabby Loo sat down with a local maker of dreamy, soulful and mysterious music, Mei Saraswati, just before her performance at Proximity Festival 2015. What does your general artist practice…
Pelican’s Albums of the Year
It’s not quite the end of the year, but it is the end of the Pelican year, so I thought I would get Peli’s music writer community to give us…