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Just hold on and keep pedalling
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 16/02/2020
» "We were all really jaded by the end of the last album. We'd done four albums in five years and it'd pretty much been non-stop. You do start to lose the love of it,"
Let England shake
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/12/2018
» "And especially, from every shire's end of England/ The holy blissful martyr for to seek/ That them had helpened when that they were weak." So begins Merrie Land, the second LP by The Good, The Bad & The Queen, a supergroup made up of Blur frontman Damon Albarn, guitarist Simon Tong from The Verve, bassist Paul Simonon from The Clash and Nigerian drummer Tony Allen. Titled Introduction, the album's brief opener is based on an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales -- the perfect premise for a record concerned with the uncertain future of a post-Brexit UK.
Horses for courses
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 06/09/2015
» Foals eschew the catchiness of their previous material in favour of overall cohesiveness.
A soul stirring
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 17/08/2014
» Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini is fully embracing the sound of vintage soul on his third studio album, but it's still his voice that sets him apart