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Indie rock done right
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 09/02/2020
» "When I was 18/ Someone got stabbed in a church/ But I got used to it/ And forgave all the ways and the names/ It was so long ago, anyways," vocalist Jeremy Gaudet recounts on Murder In The Cathedral, the opening track to Kiwi Jr.'s debut album, Football Money. The vivid songwriting, buoyed by his bandmates' jangly instrumentation, is delivered with the kind of drawl that would have you thinking fondly of Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and The Strokes as well as the Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman and Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage.
Beauty in banality
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 17/11/2019
» The year 2014 was quite an exciting one for music. On the Top 40 front, we had a handful of inescapable earworms, like Pharrell Williams' Happy, Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX's Fancy and Taylor Swift's Shake It Off. Elsewhere, new talents like FKA twigs and Arca came out with their cutting-edge debut albums (LP1 and Xen, respectively). Standing among those high profile releases was Total Strife Forever, the debut record by English musician William Doyle, who at the time went by the moniker East India Youth.
The return of the unlikely psy-folk Icon
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 13/04/2014
» The septuagenarian cult folk singer makes a welcome return 44 years after her transcendental debut in 1970.
Good Vibrations
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 06/04/2014
» Born to celebrated folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, it comes as no surprise as to why Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright truly embodies the adage: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Having learned how to play piano when he was a little boy, Wainwright went on to spend his teenage years performing and touring alongside his family in the McGarrigle Sisters and Family band.