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Songs for life, for life
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 28/06/2020
» Say what you will about Carabao and their sometimes questionable politics, there's no denying that they remain one of the most influential phleng phuea chiwit (songs for life) pioneers Thailand has ever seen.
A pop renaissance
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 14/06/2020
» If Madonna's long, illustrious career has taught us mortals anything, it's that a pop chameleon makes the best kind of pop music.
The spirit is willing, the body even more so
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 24/05/2020
» The first time I had the opportunity to see Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, performing live was in 2015 at the 15th edition of La Primavera Sound, Barcelona's renowned summer music festival.
Aching For Colours
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/05/2020
» Having grown up in an artistic household, it was only a matter of time before Brooklyn native Zsela Thompson would unleash her own creativity and morph into an artist in her own right.
Same strokes, just a little older
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 19/04/2020
» "Up on a hill, here's where we begin/ This little story, a long time ago," Julian Casablancas sings on The Modern Age, one of the three tracks on The Strokes' 2001 eponymous debut EP, a precursor to the group's seminal full-length, Is This It.
Closer to home
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 29/03/2020
» "Sister, I promise you I'm changing/ You've heard broken promises I know," Dan Snaith wastes no time wearing his heart on his sleeve on Sister, the opening track to his latest album as Caribou, Suddenly.
Dictated by night
Life, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 08/03/2020
» NYC's Elliot Moss, although not without a few missteps, translates nocturnal musings into his most personal record so far
A matter of time
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 01/03/2020
» After almost a year-long build-up, Kevin Parker's latest offering under project Tame Impala is finally here. The album, their fourth following 2015's Currents, was first teased in March last year with lead single Borderline.
Go further west
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 23/02/2020
» Throughout their decades-spanning career in the music biz, Pet Shop Boys have always operated within the realm of sophisticated synth-pop that advocates varying degrees of dancefloor abandon. For lyricist Neil Tennant and composer Chris Lowe, however, it's not just about the allure of club culture or pure hedonism. From day one, social consciousness gets woven into the sonic fabric of their music. "In a West End town, a dead-end world/ The East End boys and West End girls," Tennant sings about the class and wealth gap on their 1984 debut single West End Girls.
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,"