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GRIMES So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth (4AD)
Grimes’ new album is finally confirmed for February 21, and with that news comes her latest alien pop vision, which swooshes and swoops to distraction. Contact Anna Meacham
anna@huxley.world
CHARLOTTE All My Life (Turtle Tunes)
BILLIE EILISH Everything I Wanted (Polydor)
Is the teen star telling us she has all she ever dreamed of? As she closes 2019 with a creeping, complex dance banger, it’s tempting to assume so, but things are rarely so simple in Billie’s world. Contact Ruth Drake
ruth@toastpress.com
This is a big time piano ballad from Charlotte, who heads into 2020 tipped by Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi, among others. What do they know? Contact Kat Bawden
kat@dedikatedpr.com
BAXTER DURY Slumlord (Rough Trade)
The first cut from Baxter Dury’s Night Chancers LP is a funky delight, the singer peacocking about and delivering deadpan vocals over a greasy bassline. Contact Jamie Woolgar
jamiewoolgar@roughtraderecords.com
GIG OF THE WEEK 26.11
ROSE GRAY High Again (Rose Gray)
Londoner Rose Gray wanders through the reasons people seek release from city life on this soulful new single, which hits hard, finger clicks and all. Contact Emily Gale
emily@triplethreatmgmt.com
ANNA CALVI You’re Not God (Domino)
People love Peaky Blinders, and if that means increased exposure for Anna Calvi, then the more the better. This illustrates her gristly style impeccably. Contact Aoife Kitt
aoife@dominorecordco.com
EMPATH Roses That Cry (Fat Possum/Get Better)
There’s no shortage of great new bands in Philadelphia at the moment and Empath are one of the best. Investigate their right-on psychedelic noise at once. Contact Dan Carson
dan@they-do.com
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TASTEMAKERS The industry’s favourite new sounds THE MILK – COLOURS
Tom Whalley Producer, BBC Radio 6 Music
NURIA GRAHAM
Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 7.30pm
Spanish/Irish singer Nuria Graham takes time out from working on the follow up to her excellent Does It Ring A Bell? album to play a tiny London show. Turn up and let her mellifluous indie-pop soothe your soul.
Milk man Tom Whalley 10 | Music Week 25.11.19
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As a civilisation, we should probably be dreading the future, but as long as we make it to January 17, 2020, then it’ll all have been worth it. That’s because that’s when The Milk – four mates who formed their first group at school in Chelmsford before adopting their current guise ahead of their 2012 debut – will be releasing their third album, Cages. Until then, I’ll just have to keep listening to Colours, their latest single, on repeat. It’s not often that a band, especially one with a sound as ambitious as that crafted by The Milk, are given time to hone their craft. But then
again, most labels aren’t as lovely as Wah Was 45s. Tales From The
Thames Delta, the band’s debut LP, will be getting on for eight years old by the time Cages is released. Back then, labels and radio stations were probably still hoping that a band made up of four white kids from Essex would be the next great indie hopefuls. Thankfully, in the time
that’s been afforded to them, the music world has moved on. I believe it’s now ready for an R&B band in the original sense of the word, a group whose soul aims to cut as deep as ’70s era Marvin Gaye or Bill Withers.
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