Sarah Nixey の新作

Sarah Nixey
Sea Fever

Sea Fever

イギリス人SSW

Luke Haines、John Moore と共にBlack Box Recorderに在籍

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Formerly one third of the much-loved trio Black Box Recorder, alongside The Auteurs’ Luke Haines and Jesus and Mary Chain guitarist John Moore, the British singer-songwriter Sarah Nixey has steadily gained acclaim as a solo artist who makes savvy, sophisticated and poised pop.

Delivering vocals with a detached elegance over opulent tracks, any perceived nonchalance in Nixey’s luxe, cut glass voice belies her empathy, where social commentary serves as protest, both explicit and implied. Like Billy Bragg deepfaked as prime Julie Andrews, this strange but effective juxtaposition radiates soft power.

‘Lies of the Land’ depicts a corrupt post-Brexit and Covid-19 world where inequality and division flourish. ‘England's On Fire’ delves into the nuanced concepts of patriotism and nationalism, and ‘Pleasure Bay’ narrates the story of a love affair with a deprived yet beautiful English seaside town, written after Nixey left London, drawn back to the Dorset coast.

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Ulrika Spacek の新作

Ulrika Spacek
EXPO

EXPO

60--80点相当

イースト・ロンドンを拠点とする実験集団

4th

EXPO - Ulrika Spacek | Album | AllMusic

The fourth album from Ulrika Spacek, EXPO finds the East London experimental collective branching out in a couple ways: Musically, it employed a "sound bank," wherein members recorded fragments of material and later essentially sampled themselves for its layered, analog-digital sound. Thematically, after exploring interior realms on three albums, events like touring the U.S. and impending parenthood prompted bandleader Rhys Edwards to turn his lens outward with lyrics like "Eyes across America/A place in fracture/A place in fracture" ("I Could Just Do It"). EXPO was self-recorded at Total Refreshment Centre in London and at Stugion in Stockholm, with Edwards and Joseph Stone each playing various instruments including guitar, Total Refreshment Centre owner/producer Syd Kemp (caroline, Thurston Moore, Spiritualized) on bass, Callum Brown on drums, and newcomer Rhys Jenkins (Hot Mass, the Arteries) on guitar.

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Alice Costelloe の新作

Alice Costelloe
Move On With the Year

Move On With The Year

70--80点相当

ジークムント・フロイトの玄孫にあたる、

ロンドンを拠点とするSSW

アリス・コステロ

1st

Alice Costelloe Confronts the Past with Elegant Art Pop » PopMatters

The fact that the London-based singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe, the great-great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, is, on her debut album Move on With the Year, probing into her unconscious to conjure up memories of her estranged father might seem too on the nose or a send-up. Don’t worry, it isn’t either. Instead, it’s a gallant portrayal of a child of a parent battling substance abuse—in other words, it’s an indie pop record with a subject matter barely acknowledged, let alone expressed with such finesse and stoicism. Yet, despite the heaviness of its themes, you could be floating.

The post-war English poet Philip Larkin wrote, in his customary sardonic tone, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.” In the next stanza of “This Be the Verse”, Larkin opens with a punchline to a joke that never existed: “But they were fucked up in their turn.” The specter of Move on With the Year is, of course, Costelloe’s absent father, who moves through the songs fucking her up, or, in her own words, “a vagabond haunting the night.” Yet, perhaps in realizing that he, in turn, was subjected to the errors of his parents, Costelloe doesn’t appear to be reproachful—if anything, compassionate.