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Songs to Learn and Sing by Echo and the Bunnymen – Album Review
By Ellie Victor Greatest hits, or best of albums, can be misleading beasts. This 1985 compliation from Echo and the ... -
Smoke + Oakum by The Longest Johns – Album Review
By Ellie Victor The unlikely viral success of The Longest Johns’ 2021 breakout track, ‘Wellerman‘ – a sparse reading of ... -
The St Buryan Sessions by Sarah McQuaid – Album Review
By Ellie Victor The miasma of lockdown forced creatives into a new working space. Some flourished, making art imbued with ... -
Richard Carpenter’s Piano Songbook by Richard Carpenter – Album Review
By Ellie Victor Richard Carpenter, songwriter and arranger for The Carpenters’ mega-selling 70s hit factory recordings, once said that when ... -
Still Rising by Gregory Porter – Album Review
By Ellie Victor Maybe Gregory Porter‘s late-blooming career should be a lesson. The soul singer is 50 now – and ...
