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April 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Women are leading the way
Women are leading the way – strong leadership, calm and clear communication. All that waiting, being told that it was a man’s job… of course when given the chance, when able to bust on through to make and then take the chance, the right person for the job isn’t the man it always was, forever, […]Archive
September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Joan Shelley: Like The River Loves The Sea
Joan Shelley Like The River Loves The Sea No Quarter Records Over a half-dozen albums across the last decade Joan Shelley has refined her sound and perfected the craft of subtly confessional songwriting – nothing jarring at all here in the simple instrumentation and gorgeous singing. But look beneath the beautiful poetic worlds (“A haven […]Archive
February 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls
Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls Ba Da Bing! Where the first two full-lengthers and EPs felt like Tiny Ruins was merely the name of a project to house the songs of the very talented Hollie Fullbrook, the proof of the live shows has been the slow-simmering of Tiny Ruins The Band – its members fully integrating across the records to date to arrive now, together […]Archive
August 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
LUMP: LUMP
LUMP LUMP Dead Oceans LUMP is a duo comprised of singer/songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay from the alt-folk combo, Tunng. They met at a gig, or the afterparty of a gig, and hatched a plan to work together. Marling has made a half-dozen perfect/near-perfect albums – time for a change; extend the palette, do […]Archive
November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Laura Marling: Semper Femina
Laura Marling Semper Femina Sony Music Canada Inc. Laura Marling’s output is extraordinary – 27 years old, six albums to date, all of them great. Each one building on the one before it. No mistakes. No duds. And though the first three sit in a straight line (and that’s not a criticism) from there her […]Archive
August 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 6: Joan Baez – “Joan Baez”
Here we go – into the sixties – 1960 in fact. There are quite a few albums from this decade I haven’t heard – but I’m gonna guess that in most cases I’m familiar with the artist; largely due to the plethora of greatest hits compilations. In the late 1980s when the first real 60s […]Archive
July 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Courtney Marie Andrews: Honest Life
Courtney Marie Andrews Honest Life Fat Possum It’s forever a case of break out the comparisons when writing about female singer/songwriters – I’m guilty of it, as well as being critical of it – but sometimes those comparisons stand up and usually they’re meant as a compliment; to that end it’s impossible not to hear […]Archive
March 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 8 – Recent Finds and Reminders; Things I’ve Been Appreciating…
So it’s a Five For Friday with no real theme – if there is one it’s there in the title, these songs – old and new – have all been on my mind and on the turntable over the last couple of weeks. Songs that standout on new releases, or old records I’ve just picked […]Archive
November 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #172 – Laura Marling, Auckland, 2015
I don’t really need to be writing about this gig again – so soon – because I wrote enough about it here (and it was very recent; still a recent – decent – memory) but I loved it so much and the real reason I’m adding it to the ‘stubs’ file so soon is because […]Archive
October 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Laura Marling (October 23, Akld)
Laura Marling The Powerstation, Auckland Friday, October 23 Laura Marling’s latest album, Short Movie, is fantastic – but you could be worried she didn’t think so, barely choosing from it to fill her first headlining gig in New Zealand. Instead, Marling chose a range of songs from her five albums to date, and a couple […]Archive
October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman