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When sleaze gets slick
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 05/05/2019
» Fat White Family, for the uninitiated, are a South London group trading in all manners of classic punk depravities, rock'n'roll drug habits and songs with imaginatively risqué titles (Cream Of The Young, Is It Raining In Your Mouth?, Bomb Disneyland). Led by founding frontman Lias Saoudi, the band is notorious for their outrageous live gigs, where shocking antics and nudity are not uncommon. As a band, this collective transgression is the unique selling point upon which their 2013 debut album Champagne Holocaust and its follow-up Songs For Our Mothers hinged. It's also the very factor that contributed to "the sort of classic stereotypical drug meltdown", as Lias puts it in his recent interview with Noisey, which led to them getting dropped by US-based Fat Possum Records.
James Blake's Changing Form
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/03/2019
» "Now I'm confiding, know I may have/ Gone through the motions my whole life/ I hope this is the first day/ That I connect motion to feeling," James Blake wears his heart on his sleeve on the piano-driven opener/title track of his fourth studio album, Assume Form. The candid openness with which Blake addresses depression and anxiety, the struggles he's confessed of having since his 2011 debut album took off, is stunning to witness especially for an artist whose career is mostly built on nuances, abstraction and negative spaces.
Coming Ashore
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/06/2018
» In his third studio record, the Thai troubadour pushes beyond his surf-pop territory without losing his trademark chill
Paradise Regained
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 03/12/2017
» On new record 'Utopia', the Icelandic songstress moves on from the hurt of her 2015 break-up album and rediscovers the sublime bliss of intimacy felt in the bucolic natural world.
An Evolution Theory
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 16/10/2016
» Made up of quiet, intimate songs sprinkled with quirky humour, Devendra Banhart's ninth LP is his most focused to date.
Plastic Fantastic
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 17/04/2016
» Step into the candy-coloured world of this endearing brother-sister folk-pop duo.
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