2019 is almost over and this year we've been treated with an undeniably strong bunch of new albums, new artists and some genuinely fantastic songs. From the meteoric rise of 17-year-old pop sensation Billie Eilish to new material from big hitters Kanye West, Coldplay, Tool, and Taylor Swift, the year hasn't been short on new material and left our writers with a plethora of … [Read more...] about The Vinyl Chapters Best Albums of 2019 – Writers Choices
Weyes Blood
Weyes Blood: Electric Brixton, London – Live Review
Electric Brixton, London Wednesday 30th October 2019 Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood made a major breakthrough earlier this year with her fourth record, Titanic Rising, a swooning slab of melancholy FM radio pop peppered with unsettling themes and motifs, whose cultural metaphor of incipient terror beneath a façade of privilege seemed timely and urgent. Reviewers were quick to … [Read more...] about Weyes Blood: Electric Brixton, London – Live Review
Review: Gia Margaret – There’s Always Glimmer
On her debut album of blissful quietude, Gia Margaret channels dream-pop, backwoods folk, ambient and shoegaze whilst foraging for the light within times of darkness, fashioning a disarmingly beautiful riposte to the noise around us. “It’s safe to say it’s been a hard year”, whispers the Chicago-based, classically trained singer-songwriter Gia Margaret at the outset of her … [Read more...] about Review: Gia Margaret – There’s Always Glimmer
Review: Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
The retro-futurist singer-songwriter Natalie Mering’s latest album is her most cohesive, accomplished and fully realised project to date. Natalie Mering has long been cited by tastemakers as one to watch; a gargantuan talent dabbling in bedroom freak-folk, lo-fi noise and swooning MOR whose ambition often exceeds her grasp. 2016’s well-received Front Row Seat to Earth … [Read more...] about Review: Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising