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Artist Playlist No. 4: Bang Bang Romeo’s Anastasia Walker

Bang Bang Romeo
Bang Bang Romeo will release their debut album A Heartbreaker’s Guide to the Galaxy on 14 June 2019

This week’s installment of the Artist Playlist comes from Anastasia “Stars” Walker, the striking frontwoman of British rock hopefuls Bang Bang Romeo.

The anthemic sounds of Bang Bang Romeo have caused a stir in 2018, with wide support from countless influencers, plenty of hype, and a noteworthy spot opening the famous main stage at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival.

A three-piece formed in 2010 in South Yorkshire, their sound is dominated by Stars’ belting, powerhouse vocals, lending their music a unique and relentless quality unlike any other band around today.

Bang Bang Romeo are set to follow their recent Shame On You EP with a debut album, titled A Heartbreaker’s Guide to the Galaxy, next June, and will support P!nk on her European arena tour, taking their sound to stadiums in Cardiff, Liverpool, Glasgow, London and mainland Europe.

The Artist Playlist is our way of giving musicians, usually the curated, the opportunity to curate a playlist of their own, harnessing their passion for music to receive great recommendations, learn about the music they love, and get closer to their own influences and tastes.

We ask a new musician to take part every week, giving them free reign to select ten tracks and tell us all about them, as well as one favourite from their own past output.

Anastacia’s selections reflect her taste for major, iconic artists both past and present, with most of her picks capable of playing the biggest arenas, and release dates as far back as the 1960s and as recent as the past few weeks.

Brought up on classics like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as ’90s Britpop from Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene, she describes Radiohead’s OK Computer as the album that “changed everything” for her own music tastes.

She told us: “OK Computer really was the beginning to what would become my taste in music. It was the first album that had me designing film sets and blockbuster movie scenarios in my mind when listening to it. The pictures it made me paint in my mind were insane.

“I’m a sucker for dark songs and pieces of music. Give me the 28 Weeks Later soundtrack over a happy song any day of the week. I think if it’s haunting, beautiful, chilling, cinematic and unexpected, it’s for me.”

Radiohead aside, her music taste – and picks for the playlist – stray very little from the music she was introduced to during her childhood, maintaining her formative taste for heavy hitters and huge arena rock artists.

But she also appreciates hip-hop, at least when it’s done right (“I dislike rappers who rap about the same shit other rappers rap about, like bitches, money, and more bitches”) and – as she pointed out when asked if she had anything to add – ABBA.

Read on for Stars’ picks, or head straight for the music and check out all of the tracks she selected on the Spotify playlist here.


Radiohead
Karma Police

Anastasia says: “Track number six on OK Computer, my favourite album, and the album that introduced me to what would inevitably become my ‘taste’. It’s chilling, it’s dark, it’s beautiful, it’s cinematic, it’s one of the reasons I’m in a band.”

Taken from: OK Computer, June 1997
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The Beatles
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

Anastasia says: “The Beatles. Most likely a very big part of everyone’s household playlist growing up, and in my house it was no different. My dad passed his obsession with The Beatles on to me at a very young age.

“I was around six when we went to Lanzarote for a family holiday. I took my little portable silver CD player with me everywhere at the time, and that would be no exception. Every night, I had the 1962-66 and 1967-70 compilation albums on over and over again. I remember creeping out of bed at stupid o’clock to change the CDs around.”

Taken from: Abbey Road, September 1969
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Coldplay
Yellow

Anastasia says: “Yellow, the song I sang to get the girl. I was sat in a park with my future girlfriend one night, and I sang her Coldplay’s Yellow whilst her boyfriend was in a car round the corner. Smooth as fuck, worked like a charm and fundamentally became our song.

“There was also Come What May from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, but that’s enough cheese for one night, folks…”

Taken from: Parachutes, November 2000
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Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody

Anastasia says: “Freddie Mercury, the greatest frontman of all-time and one of my heroes. The voice, the stage presence, the story, it’s untouchable isn’t it? I get asked in majority of interviews who I look up to most as a vocalist and when I say Freddie, most people are surprised that it’s not a woman that I look up to most.

“Don’t get me wrong, the likes of Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin and Lisa Hannigan inspire me massively, but Freddie drives me more so. Bohemian Rhapsody as the example? Genius, that’s why.”

Taken from: A Night at the Opera, December 1975
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Catatonia
Mulder and Scully

Anastasia says: “We’re back to that old portable CD player again. My dad introduced me to Catatonia on it. I’d been subject to great female solo artists: Shirley Bassey, Björk, and Dido to name a few. But then dad had showed me Catatonia, my first taste of a woman fronting an indie rock band.

“It made me think: ‘Fuck, so this happens? This is a thing? Women can be current in indie rock music and don’t have to look like Britney Spears to be successful? Yeah, I wanna be in a band.'”

Taken from: International Velvet, February 1998
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Travis
Driftwood

Anastasia says:The Man Who is one of a few albums me and my dad gauged on whilst he and my mum were getting divorced. Music has always been a get out clause or a safe haven when something bad is going on in my life, it’s like therapy.

“We must have played this album 500 times in the summer of 2003 when I was a kid. Me and my dad have slowly been ticking the bands who saved our lives in the darker moments off our bucket list. We saw Manics together, Ocean Colour Scene, then finally, this summer at Isle Of Wight Festival, Travis. Tears of happiness! Coldplay, you’re next.”

Taken from: The Man Who, May 1999
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Twenty One Pilots
Jumpsuit

Anastasia says: “I’ve got a fuck ton of obvious passions. Music, art, film, books and – err – exercise! Yeah, I shit you not.

“Training three to seven times a week has been a part for my life now for just over ten months, and I’m really enjoying it. My fitness levels have risen dramatically and my health is changing and shaping me into the person I want to be when on the road, ready for anything. This tune recently has been pushing me to that next level of ‘burn’, if you like. Love it.”

Taken from: Trench, October 2018
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Muse
Hysteria

Anastasia says: “These guys are a big inspiration to Bang Bang Romeo. That dark, twisted, almost fairytale ound is something we lock onto when in the studio. Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like Muse.”

Taken from: Absolution, September 2003
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Kasabian
Club Foot

Anastasia says: “The afterparty for Isle of Wight Festival’s 50th anniversary. Earlier that day we’d just played our biggest set to date, opening the main stage to a record number of people, around 20,000. We loved every second of it.

“Later that day, Rita Ora gave us her red wine and Pringles and a good chunk of her time, and later still would see us having drinks with Kasabian, Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch amongst others in the hotel behind main stage. Kasabian had just headlined, and the vibe was insane. We’ll never forget it.”

Taken from: Kasabian, September 2004
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Hans Zimmer
The Dark Knight Trilogy Medley (Live)

Anastasia says: “Here’s someone we’d do unspeakable things to work with. We tend to write and produce songs in a soundtrack mindset. We’re all huge movie fans, and it really shows in what we do. Hans Zimmer is a name that gets thrown around the studio on a regular basis.

“The Live in Prague album accompanied us during our first time in New York and Los Angeles. It was on repeat, in fact. Goosebump moments, eat your heart out.”

Taken from: Live in Prague, November 2017
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Bang Bang Romeo
Shame On You

Anastasia says: “Shame On You is our latest single, and the one that’s sort of taken us to the next level, if you like.

We wrote and produced this song in Los Angeles with a great team called HEAVY. We walked in after nearly getting knocked out by falling palm trees because of the wind, then they told us Nick Valensi from The Strokes had been in just hours before, so we smelt the sofas in which he sat, and then wrote this tune.”

Taken from: Shame On You EP, August 2018
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Bang Bang Romeo’s debut album A Heartbreaker’s Guide to the Galaxy is scheduled for release on 14 June 2019. They’re also supporting P!nk on her European tour next year.

Premiere: Misty Coast – Little Sister

Misty Coast
Dream pop duo Misty Coast are Linn Frøkedal and Richard Myklebust

Norwegian dream pop duo Misty Coast have excelled themselves with their new single, creating a woozy and assured psychedelic showpiece.

Little Sister is the second track to be revealed from their forthcoming album Melodaze, an alluring marriage between grainy layers of guitar and verbal lead Linn Frøkedal’s signature reverb-drenched vocals.

The lead riff soars and distorts, Richard Myklebust imprints Linn’s dewy chorus with a backing refrain, and it all swirls with typical psychedelic effect.

It’s a fuller sound than Misty Coast have flaunted previously, and will be accompanied tomorrow by visuals from British ex-pat artist Steph Hope, now based in Oslo.

Of the track and animated video, Linn explains: “It’s about people who think they know it all, and dreamers who can’t get their heads out of the clouds.

“Steph totally got the trippy vibe, and created this gorgeous animation to visualize the music. It’s a perfect match, dressing our little daydream in vivid colors and mesmerizing movement.”

Melodaze, scheduled for release on January 25, is Misty Coast’s second album in just 16 months, the follow-up to their self-titled debut in September of last year.

Described by the band as their “Berlin rebel album”, it was recorded in the German capital’s Schöneberg district, and produced – as with all of their previous work – by Matias Tellez. The first single, Eleven Months, was revealed in September.

Misty Coast have notably traded the minimalist sequenced drum tracks of their debut for more authentic percussion from Kim Åge Furuhaug, resulting in the rich, more authoritative sound we’ve noticed on both tracks to date.

Misty Coast’s Linn Frøkedal and Richard Myklebust are both also members of indie rock collective The Megaphonic Thrift, starting their new project as a happy accident when late night jam sessions spawned material that didn’t fit in with the band.

Based in Bergen, the twosome are individually staples of the Norwegian music scene, with a thorough history of contributing to various bands, right back to the turn of the 2000s and – in Richard’s case – the late 1990s.

He can be heard on past releases by Stereo 21, Wasted Space Cadets (with whom he was known as “Rockhard”) and producer Matias’ project Young Dreams, while Linn joined Nordic post-rockers The Low Frequency in Stereo in 2006.

Linn is also the sister of Anne Lise Frøkedal, who performs under the family surname and released her second solo album How We Made It at the end of August.

Melodaze will be released by Norway’s Brilliance Records on 25 January, available in both physical and digital formats. Little Sister is out, complete with visuals, tomorrow.

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Premiere: Mira Aasma – Lost & Found

Mira Aasma
Mira Aasma's new Nighttime Memos EP is released on Birds Records on Friday 30 November

On Lost & Found, Swedish musician Mira Aasma is raw and unmasked, constructing a poignant composition that’s her most affecting to date.

The witchy pop performer drives through an emotional minefield on her new stripped-down production, although under her fragile tones there’s a deceptively positive message and powerful outlook.

A choir of ambient voices gives way to Mira’s vulnerable vocals, synthesized chords and a sprinkling of violin that slowly spin their way to a gently rhapsodic crescendo.

Lost & Found is the second track to be revealed from Mira Aasma’s upcoming Nighttime Memos EP, her cosiest release so far, and initially borne of a series of primitive, back-to-basics demos recorded in her bedroom.

Using only a small Casio synthesizer and the built-in microphone on a pair of headset style headphones, she laid down all of the EP’s five tracks in the comfort of her home, later working in a studio with friends to re-record and add instrumentation.

The first track, Sunday, was unveiled last month, similarly stripped-down but uniquely punctuated with proud blares of saxophone, but it is on Lost & Found that Nighttime Memos is at its most revealing.

The lyrics (“Every time you’re falling down, you’re falling way down through the ground / Every time you’re way up high, all of the shadows seem to hide”) deal with the highs and lows of emotional turbulence, and almost unambiguously seem to address mood and mental health.

Yet of the track, Mira is fairly tight-lipped on the meaning, telling us: “I think that the lyrics have to speak for themselves in this song. It’s very close to me and I imagine that many people probably will recognize themselves in it.”

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Nighttime Memos will be Mira Aasma’s third collection of music to date, almost three years exactly since the release of her debut single Ghost.

Born in 1996 and hailing from the vibrant Gothenburg music scene, Mira Aasma started out seeking to sound like Enya and released considerably moodier, gloomier, and even goth-tinged pop material, releasing her first EP Stereoscope in 2016.

She followed it up with a self-titled mini-album last year, marrying violins, synths and her shadowy vocal tones and including the brilliant art pop of Snow White Wedding. A standalone single, Witches, followed this March.

Nighttime Memos is released on Friday November 30 on Birds Records.

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Lost & Found Lyrics

Not a day left to get back to
Not a day left to find
All of the shadows that you tried to resist
Are growing fearless in your mind

Not a day left to hold it in
Not a day to let it out
You’re leaning back and longing for a place
Where you can dance under the sun

Every time you’re falling down
You’re falling way down through the ground
Every time you’re way up high
All of the shadows seem to hide
You’re feeling lost and feeling unfound

Stay away just to watch your dreams quietly passing by
In the real coming distant weeks keeping up with the speed of light
Not another day turning into night, gotta get back to sleep
You drift away if you stay around on the bottom of the sea

Every time you’re falling down
You’re falling way down through the ground
Every time you’re way up high
All of the shadows seem to hide
You’re feeling lost and feeling found

Live Notes: Emma Ruth Rundle and Jaye Jayle in Manchester

Emma Ruth Rundle
Emma Ruth Rundle released her new album On Dark Horses in September. Photo: Amélie Jouchoux

Emma Ruth Rundle dazzled a sold-out crowd on Saturday as she opened the UK leg of her 2018 tour in Manchester.

Appearing at Soup Kitchen for the second time in under a year, she performed material from her excellent new album On Dark Horses, its atmospheric, ethereal sounds proving to be even more hypnotic in the live arena.

Support came from Jaye Jayle, the foursome’s moody Americana supplying a fitting and well-matched warm-up, before half of the band returned to the stage as part of Emma Ruth Rundle’s backing setup.

Jaye Jayle’s vocalist Evan Patterson is Emma Ruth’s partner, and since becoming an item their careers have blended together and become wholly intertwined. The two provide guest vocals on each other’s albums, tour together, and release music on the same label (the brilliant Sargent House).

It’s useful, then, that their respective sounds are a natural fit, even though Jaye Jayle’s music features more electronics and is strongly rooted in alt-country, dominated by Evan’s dusky baritone vocal.

Evan Patterson of Jaye Jayle
Evan Patterson of Jaye Jayle, as captured by Emma Ruth Rundle

Most of the audience showed up early for Jaye Jayle’s 7:45pm set, which lasted 45 minutes – leaving a short changeover to the headliner – and comprised of nearly the entirety of their new album No Trail and Other Unholy Paths.

Ode to Betsy, up second, was the highlight of their jaunt, while Evan filled the gaps with a few comments to the crowd, remarking on Soup Kitchen’s slightly stale smell.

He also spoke at length about what he called the sound of a barking dog between songs, a joke which the crowd didn’t really get, and which in fact turned out to be this writer sneezing (sorry!) from her spot in the front row.

They proved a good primer to Emma Ruth, even though the audience was not so familiar with their material, and their stage performance – with Evan stood behind a keyboard – less engaging on the eyes than most.

A quick turnaround followed before Emma Ruth Rundle took to the stage for the main event, joined by Evan, Jaye Jayle’s heavily-bearded bass guitarist Todd Cook and her own drummer.

Emma Ruth, a stalwart of several other bands, has been performing in the UK for years and had appeared at Soup Kitchen as recently as 15 December 2017, but that didn’t prevent solid ticket sales and a full house by the time of her performance.

She played almost all of her new album – only Races failed to receive an outing – as well as tracks from her previous full-length Marked for Death, the older material arguably the most enthusiastically received despite the quality of her new release.

Emma Ruth’s audience responded to her music in diverse ways, from calmly watching to sultry dance moves and occasional bouts of headbanging, but it’s music to get lost in regardless of approach and Soup Kitchen, despite not being the most aesthetic venue, was an appropriate auditorium for her intimate sound.

Declaring she was “so glad to be in England” – she’d cancelled in Paris the night before – she got down to business quickly with a performance of the five-minute Dead Set Eyes. Album opener Fever Dreams then mesmerised, while performances of Protection and the title track from Marked for Death were met with the biggest cheers.

Darkhorse, featured in full rather than its single edit, was perhaps the most engaging and captivating performance of all, forming part of a streak of moody songs that she hung a lampshade on by quipping that they weren’t the most appropriate for a Saturday night.

Between the material Emma Ruth also told the audience she’d bought a dress (she played in her usual t-shirt and jeans get-up) only to ask herself “what the fuck” days later, and suggested the audience go along to a “dance party” after the show with her, but she otherwise rarely chatted to the crowd at length.

That meant it was the old adage of letting the music do the talking, which Emma Ruth – armed with her wonderful voice, battle-worn guitar and the percussion of her boot – manages to do in abundance.

Her penultimate track Heaven was another standout, as her set ran to an hour in total for just ten songs, concluding with You Don’t Have to Cry, a song about a painter friend and an unusually sombre choice to end a set.

She returned to the stage alone for her one-track encore, picking out Shadows of My Name from her breakthrough solo album, still one of her most popular tracks and the unsurprising choice to close her performance.

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The quieter stage for the encore meant that a small pocket of fans could be awkwardly heard singing along to the chorus more loudly than Emma Ruth, before she made a sudden exit from the stage almost as soon as she’d played her final note.

It was an abrupt end to a thoroughly stellar show, colouring her passionate new album with her live talent and offering fans a popular opportunity to hear old favourites.

Emma Ruth followed her Manchester performance with a show in Bristol last night, and concludes her UK tour with headline sets in Glasgow (6 Nov), Newcastle (7 Nov) and London (8 Nov). She’s then in Belgium, before returning to the U.S. for a second run of Stateside dates, finally concluding her extended tour in Kansas City on 17 December.

Emma Ruth Rundle set list: Dead Set Eyes, Fever Dreams, Apathy on the Indiana Border, Protection, Marked for Death, Darkhorse, Control, Light Song, Heaven, You Don’t Have to Cry, Shadows of My Name

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Artist Playlist No. 3: Hanne Mjøen

Hanne Mjøen
Hanne Mjøen released her new single, Sounds Good to Me, at the end of September

For this week’s Artist Playlist we’ve asked Hanne Mjøen, a Nordic newcomer making waves in Norway and beyond, to pick out a selection of her favourite music.

Hanne is a glossy pop climber, releasing singles that receive up to millions of plays on Spotify and receive heavy rotation on national radio playlists, a surefire sign she’ll be sticking around and that there’s great things to come.

She recently performed in the UK for the first time at one of Ja Ja Ja’s regular London showcases of Scandinavian talent, and has just released a new single – Sounds Good to Me – on new label Spinnin’ Records.

Her music, proudly boasting its pop credentials, is sleek and shiny, and it’s those characteristics that she’s brought to her edition of the Artist Playlist.

For the uninitiated, the Artist Playlist is our way of giving musicians, usually the curated, the opportunity to curate a playlist of their own, harnessing their passion for music to receive great recommendations, learn about the music they love, and get closer to their own influences and tastes.

Hanne Mjøen’s picks include two tracks from the powerful trailblazer of modern Nordic electropop, plus selections of both major U.S. stars and artists based closer to home.

It’s unsurprising, then, that she describes herself as a “pop girl”. She told us: “I tend to listen mostly to emotional pop songs that hit me and describes how I’m feeling. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a pop music fan.

“Growing up in Oppdal, a town with 6,000 citizens in the middle of Norway, we didn’t really buy a lot of CDs, and I never listen to albums. Lyrics are very important, but most of all the emotion in the voice of the singer.”

Read on for Hanne’s picks, or head straight for the music and check out all of the tracks she selected on the Spotify playlist here.


Robyn
Dancing on My Own

Hanne says: “I am the biggest Robyn fan, and Dancing on My Own is the best song in the world. She is amazing, and she makes me want to dance confident and strong and fall apart crying, all at the same time.”

Taken from: Body Talk Pt. 1, June 2010
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Bon Iver
715 – CRΣΣKS

Hanne says: “I’ve been in love with Bon Iver ever since I first heard Skinny Love in high school. Justin Vernon is an amazing songwriter, and his voice breaks my heart.

“I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve cried listening to this song. For me, it’s the perfect description of how it feels being lost, and having pain no-one really can understand or heal.

“I think I could listen to this song on repeat forever.”

Taken from: 22, a Million, September 2016
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Zara Larsson
Ruin My Life

Hanne says: “This was a song that just hit me. I love the simplicity and the conflict in the lyrics, missing someone who messed you up, and wanting them to come back and ruin your life even more.”

Taken from: Ruin My Life (single), October 2018
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Selena Gomez
Hands to Myself

Hanne says: “This song is something completely different, but it’s just so good. It always makes me smile, and it’s the perfect balance between innocent and sexy.

“It’s the perfect pop song, and I am obsessed with the lyric: ‘Can’t keep my hands to myself. I mean I could but why would I want to?'”

Taken from: Revival, October 2015
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Lykke Li
so sad so sexy

Hanne says: “This is just a song that everyone should listen to. It’s sexy to be sad.”

Taken from: So Sad So Sexy, June 2018
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Justin Bieber & BloodPop®
Friends

Hanne says: “I feel like Friends is the perfect post-breakup song. I still care about you, and I was just wondering, can we be friends? I’ve actually played this live a couple of times, and I love it.”

Taken from: Friends (single), August 2017
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Iselin
Bathtub

Hanne says: “Iselin, I just wanted to say that Bathtub is so weird, so cool and so so so good, everyone should hear it! It’s important to take care of yourself, and to take time to take a bath and not rush into things.”

Taken from: Bathtub (single), June 2018
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Emilie Nicolas
Wild One

Hanne says: “Listening to this song by Emilie Nicolas just makes me feel like a boss lady. She is so strong, and her voice completely knocks me out.”

Taken from: Tranquille Emile, June 2018
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Coldplay
Viva La Vida

Hanne says: “Coldplay is my all-time favorite band, and Viva La Vida always makes me feel good.”

Taken from: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, June 2008
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Robyn
Honey

Hanne says: “I couldn’t help myself and had to pick another Robyn track! Her new song Honey. It’s perfect, and it changes a lot, so it keeps me interested and makes me listen to it over and over again.”

Taken from: Honey, October 2018
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Hanne Mjøen
Sounds Good to Me

Hanne says: “This is the most honest song I’ve written. I’m a very emotional person, and going into a new relationship can be so scary, putting every emotion on display and knowing it will hurt, but feeling that it’s still worth it in the end.

“Because without love? We’ve got nothing.”

Taken from: Sounds Good to Me (single), September 2018
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Hanne Mjøen’s new single Sounds Good to Me is out now on Spinnin’ Records. A music video has also been released, plus a remix by UK producer Paul Woolford.

Artist Playlist No. 2: Agent blå’s Emelie Alatalo

Agent blå
Agent blå released an EP, Medium Rare, in June and a self-titled debut album last year. Photo: Martin Norberg

For this week’s Artist Playlist, we made a curator of Emelie Alatalo, the vocalist with Swedish indie rock darlings Agent blå.

The self-described “deathpop” band produce dreamy post-punk music, intertwining moody aesthetics and bullish lyricism with more wistful, gazey moments, managing to both embody the spirit of punk and the rousing emotion of jangle pop.

The Gothenburg group have become one of our favourite bands from the Swedish scene, and by performing predominantly in English they’ve also won over plenty of admirers abroad, securing a U.S. record deal with Kanine Records in addition to their contract at home with Luxury.

Emelie is joined in Agent blå by Josefine Täck, Lucas Gustavsson, Felix Skörvald, Arvid Christensen and Tobias Bauer. Their debut album, as a five-piece, was released in the summer of last year, followed up by a four-track EP, Medium Rare, this June.


 
The Artist Playlist is our way of giving musicians, usually the curated, the opportunity to curate a playlist of their own, harnessing their passion for music to receive great recommendations, learn about the music they love, and get closer to their own influences and tastes.

We’re asking a new musician to take part each week, giving them free reign to select ten tracks and tell us all about them, as well as one favourite from their own past output.

In the first edition last week, we learnt all about the personal tastes and influences of Dead Naked Hippies’ Lucy Jowett. In this week’s entry, Emelie delves deep into her childhood loves plus the music she adores today, picking out Swedish pop and punk and more worldly rock and riot grrrl.

On her music taste, Emelie told us that her first favourite band was Green Day: “I adored them, and finally got to see them live in Gothenburg, for the first and last time in 2010. Shortly after I realized that being 13 years old and wearing my own weight in eyeliner, I had to listen to something heavier. So I started to listen to My Chemical Romance and Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and Rammstein.

Agent blå
When Agent blå first formed they rehearsed covers of The Cure and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Photo: Martin Norberg

“I’ve always been someone that finds a band and gets too involved. I had a period where I listened exclusively to Håkan Hellström, Broder Daniel and Kent, and every wall in my room was covered with their faces.

“Somewhere around that time, when I was maybe 15 or 16, I started listening to more Swedish music, more indie pop, and fell in love with those bands. You could say that the sheer existence of those bands is the foundation which Agent blå grew on, since we all met through our shared love for them.”

An audio fanatic, Emelie admits to listening to music all of the time, except shortly before going on stage. She’s also big on vinyl, despite lacking a turntable: “I think I like the authenticity of being able to own and hold a vinyl, and getting up in the middle of the record to flip sides. I’m also aware that’s a really pretentious thing to say, haha!”

Read on for Emelie’s picks, or head straight for the music and check out all of the tracks she selected on the Spotify playlist here.


Broder Daniel
When We Were Winning

 
Emelie says: “I just had to include Broder Daniel on this list. They might be the band we’re getting compared to the most, and I think that it always gets a little tiresome being compared to the same band over and over again, like it doesn’t matter what your own music sounds like anymore.

“But, they’re also the band I spent many years obsessing over when I was younger, so I can’t be too cranky about the comparison. If you want to make a whole club full of youngsters, including me, both cheer and weep at the same time, this is the song to play!”

Taken from: Cruel Town, September 2003
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Le Tigre
Deceptacon

 
Emelie says: “I love to listen to this song whenever things just feel hopeless. It makes me think of the whole riot grrrl movement, and it just makes me feel so fucking grateful.

“I especially find Kathleen Hanna so fascinating, and I wish that I could sit down with her for a conversation, even just for a few minutes.”

Taken from: Le Tigre, October 1999
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Amason
Yellow Moon

 
Emelie says: “This record is one of the best records I own. It’s just such a winner all the way through, and I think that this was the first song I heard from it.

“Amanda Bergman’s voice has always been like a gentle pat on the back for me, or the one tucking you in when you just don’t want to do anything but lay in bed listening to the same record over and over again. It just makes me feel calm.”

Taken from: Sky City, January 2015
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Marilyn Manson
Dried Up, Tied and Dead To The World

 
Emelie says: “This song is the black sheep of this playlist, but I didn’t have the heart to scrap it. Marilyn Manson is the soundtrack to my early teens, when nothing mattered more than quirky clip-ons, my then girlfriend’s Marilyn Manson t-shirt, and who had the biggest rips in their stockings.

“I think this period of my life was when I really started to care about music in a way I hadn’t done before. It became more than just something to listen to, it became my entire personality. Whenever I listen to him I get thrown back to that time, and there’s something weirdly soothing about that.

“I will never forget the look on my boyfriend’s face when we found out about our shared love for him. It was like a buried guilty pleasure had just resurfaced and was suddenly okay for us to openly like. Nowadays this is my go-to song whenever I’m going out, to get in the right ‘fuck you’ mood!”

Taken from: Antichrist Superstar, October 1996
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Den svenska björnstammen
Som vanligt

 
Emelie says: “This is by far my favourite band to watch live. They have a ridiculous amount of energy on stage, which is impossible not to absorb when you’re standing in the crowd.

“One of my top memories with this band is from maybe one year ago when I went to a gig with one of my best friends. The venue was overflowing with people, so you couldn’t stand still, but nobody wanted to anyway. It felt like the whole audience was one giant family, celebrating together.”

Taken from: I förhållande till, April 2014
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Kent
Stoppa mig juni (lilla ego)

 
Emelie says: “Kent is, just like Broder Daniel, a band that opened me up to the Swedish pop scene. I had Jocke Berg’s lyrics written across the walls of my childhood room, and I can’t count the times I’ve cried thinking that this is the only band in the world that knows how it feels to be me.

“Even though I’m not sixteen anymore, I still love this band just as much. They were definitely a big motivation to start playing music in the first place.”

Taken from: Hagnesta Hill, December 1999
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KSMB
Polsk Zchlager

 
Emelie says: “I love this really iconic band, and especially this song, much for its childish seriousness. It’s full of irritation, but dealt with by seemingly not giving a damn. I usually find myself listening to it in the mornings while on my way to school, to lose a bit of morning temper. It’s somehow a little refreshing.”

Taken from: Rika barn leka bäst, August 1981
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Parenthetical Girls
The Four Platitudes (A Bridge Song)

 
Emelie says: “Parenthetical Girls have, hands down, been my absolute favourite band since the day I found out about them. There’s something about how their songs are bursting with both arrogance and humility at the same time, both in their lyrics and instrumentally. It never fails to amaze me.

“If I ever run into a genie in a bottle my one wish would be to get to collaborate with Zac Pennington, or to cut his brain open and marvel over the wonders going on inside.”

Taken from: Safe as Houses, June 2006
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Makthaverskan
Comfort

 
Emelie says: “When we started Agent blå, we were all really big fans of Makthaverskan, and wished there would come a time that we might even be signed to the same record label [Luxury Records] as them. Flash forward a couple of months, and we were, and still are!

“They have definitely been a big influence on our music, and since everyone on Luxury is like a little family, they’ve also become great friends to us all. They’re all really talented, and really great people!”

Taken from: Ill, October 2017
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Cocteau Twins
Cherry-coloured Funk

 
Emelie says: “This song is the root of one of my favourite tour memories. We were driving home from a gig in Uppsala, and I was sitting in the front seat when this song came on.

“There had been this amazing sunset happening before us for some time, but when this was playing the sky had just become dark and starry. It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and this song captured it so well, and tied the whole weekend together.”

Taken from: Heaven or Las Vegas, September 1990
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Agent blå
Another Reason to Cut Off An Ear

 
Emelie says: “This song is a really fun one to play live! It usually fires up the audience, which is such a fun thing to watch from the stage.

“It’s a pretty upbeat and happy sounding song, but at the same time, I really think it’s one of our sadder songs lyrically. I was in a really weird place in my life while writing these lyrics, and I was telling myself that if I acted like everything was fine, I would eventually feel fine.

“Looking back at this song now, I realise that the lyrics that seemed kind of happy then are really quite sad and out of place. I was writing about some kind of fear, but it was already happening. But that also gives the song another push, and makes it even more fun to perform.”

Taken from: Medium Rare EP, June 2018
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Agent blå’s Medium Rare EP is out now, available digitally and on 12″ via Luxury Records in Sweden, Kanine Records in the US and Through Love Records in Germany, and on CD via 2670 Records.

Artist Playlist No. 1: Dead Naked Hippies’ Lucy Jowett

Dead Naked Hippies
Dead Naked Hippies have just relased a new single, titled Young Male Rage. Photo: Andrew Benge

For the first ever Artist Playlist we invited one of our favourite new women in music, Lucy Jowett, to pick out ten tracks that mean something to her.

Lucy is the fiery frontwoman of Dead Naked Hippies, a stormy post-punk trio that have been making waves of late with a stream of gutsy singles and live shows.

Described in our Women on Vox feature earlier this year as “Leeds scene prospects that clamour and barb with unabashed in-your-face style”, their music is all about sharp riffs and Lucy’s jagged vocals, little abrasive touches and ferocious melodies.

Their self-titled debut EP dropped in September last year, with a new single – Young Male Rage – released on Friday and out now on a 7″ split and digital platforms.

 
The Artist Playlist is our way of giving musicians, usually the curated, the opportunity to curate a playlist of their own, harnessing their passion for music to receive great recommendations, learn about the music they love, and get closer to their own influences and tastes.

We’ll be asking a new musician to take part each week, giving them free reign to select ten tracks and tell us all about them, as well as one favourite from their own past output.

We’ll also be chatting to each musician about their own music taste, finding out exactly what made them the artist they are today. In Lucy’s case, it all started with pop-punk.

“I was definitely a rock and metal kid throughout my teens,” she told us, citing Green Day’s American Idiot as her first favourite album. “I was 11 or 12 when it first came out, and that set me up to develop a taste for guitar music.”

Dead Naked Hippies' Lucy Jowett
Lucy Jowett onstage with Dead Naked Hippies at Headrow House in Leeds, UK. Photo: Katy

Later on, she discovered classic bands like Sonic Youth, Portishead and Massive Attack through a college tutor, but Radiohead proved to perhaps be the main revelation. “I listened to OK Computer first, and then delved into everything that came before and after. Their development is fascinating, and I hugely respect how they have constantly pushed and reinvented themselves over the years.

“PJ Harvey is another like that. She’s also constantly reinvented herself, and her music has always felt very primal. Discovering her was really exciting for me as a young woman.”

Nowadays, Lucy cares deeply for artistic integrity, noting: “Music and message is a big thing for me. I’m definitely more inclined to listen to a band or artist if I know that their art is coming from a place of integrity and if they have something to say.”

Her playlist choices – packed with powerful women and important messages – reflect her inclinations, and include old favourites, new releases, and a couple of the bands that she’s shared the stage with along the way.

Read on for Lucy’s picks, or head straight for the music and check out all of the tracks she selected on the Spotify playlist here.


Savages
Hit Me

 
Lucy says: “I recently listened to an interview where Jehnny Beth discussed the lyrics of this song, and I found it really thought provoking.

“They’re centred around the idea that pleasure can come from different places, and the similarities between pleasure and pain. Focusing on the idea that a typically negative signal, for example crying, is seen as a sign of weakness, when perhaps it could be seen as a positive, releasing emotion vital to a specific time in your life to become stronger.

“I think it’s a really interesting perspective that can challenge the norms we’ve put in place, especially the idea that men and young boys can’t cry because it will make them appear weak. It’s a terrible pile of BS and is very damaging. I like to think that outwardly crying is a sign of strength and a willingness to share emotion.”

Taken from: Silence Yourself, May 2013
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Anna Calvi
As a Man

 
Lucy says: “I really respect how Anna is challenging perceptions of gender. This track in particular focuses on the idea of both genders moving to the middle of the spectrum, furthering gender equality. I’m understandably passionate about gender equality, and as far as we’ve come there’s still a long way to go, so I find this song really powerful and empowering.”

Taken from: Hunter, August 2018
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Dream Wife
Somebody

 
Lucy says: “We’ve had the luxury of playing with these brilliant women twice over the past two years. The first time we played with them was actually only the third Dead Naked Hippies gig, and we got asked to jump in the night before as another band had to drop out due to illness.

“We were inspired by the sense of togetherness they encourage at their shows, and how welcome they made us feel as a support band. It definitely made us consider how we wanted to be at our own shows.”

Taken from: Dream Wife, January 2018
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Fever Ray
Mustn’t Hurry

 
Lucy says: “This song makes me feel a sense of calm when I start to feel impatient about the things I really want to achieve but have no control over. I’m a serial perfectionist, I’m always ambitious, and I’m never satisfied, especially when it comes to creativity. This song serves as a reminder that it’s important to not rush and to let myself breathe too.”

Taken from: Plunge, October 2017
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Björk
Enjoy


 
Lucy says: “To me, this song is about being able to go out and experience the world. To enjoy learning about life, to feel emotion and be fearless about it.”

Taken from: Post, June 1995
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imi
Born For What?


 
Lucy says: “imi is a Leeds lady too, and a good friend. This track in particular is very emotive and beautiful. It provokes me to think about the human condition and purpose. I think practising self-awareness is extremely important in the modern world because there are so many distractions.”

Taken from: Born For What? (single), December 2017
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Karen O
Rapt

 
Lucy says: “Karen O is massively inspiring to me as a frontwoman, in the way that she doesn’t put herself on any kind of pedestal because of her gender. She doesn’t give a fuck, and seeing that has been really important for me when feeling my way around being a frontperson.

“Women definitely need to be championed in music and encouraged from a young age, but should never feel that their gender is in any way a token, that it has to be highlighted or that they have to live up to what is deemed acceptable, typical or ‘normal’ as a woman.”

Taken from: Crush Songs, September 2014
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Queen Zee
I Hate Your New Boyfriend

 
Lucy says: “Queen Zee are another band we got asked to jump on a couple of shows with because our friends had to drop out. We’re glad we did. They’re pushing boundaries and extremely important messages around trans power, self-acceptance and looking after your mental health. Their live shows are insane too.”

Taken from: Eat My Sass EP, September 2017
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PJ Harvey
My Beautiful Leah

 
Lucy says: “PJ Harvey is another woman that I find hugely inspiring, as she’s never fit into anyone else’s mould and has constantly reinvented herself. My Beautiful Leah is one of my favourite tracks from my favourite album of hers.”

Taken from: Is This Desire?, September 1998
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Sit Down
Bloodlust

 
Lucy says: “We played with Sit Down in Brighton earlier this year and they knocked my socks off. That doesn’t happen very often! Lovely people too. Their visual style is just as in your face as their music, think noisy AF, matching power suits and a ton of attitude.”

Taken from: Cheap Luxe EP, March 2018
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Dead Naked Hippies
Rare

 
Lucy says: “We wrote Rare at a time when I was feeling pretty much not myself. I was suffering with a really bad bout of anxiety.

“The idea of Rare was to flip that around and turn all of the negative, bad energy that I had into something positive and unapologetic. We humans are often very good at being hard on ourselves when we’re down, which ends up causing us to spiral out of control.

“Rare enabled me to find a way to be compassionate towards myself, and embrace my anxiety rather than demonise it. It might sound odd to some, but it made me feel a lot better.”

Taken from: Rare (single), August 2018
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Dead Naked Hippies’ new single Young Male Rage is out now. They’re set to play lots of live dates this autumn, including HERfest Sheffield and 2Q Festival Lincoln on 3 Nov.

The Great Escape: A look back at the class of 2018 in portraits

Soccer Mommy at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Soccer Mommy pictured on Brighton seafront ahead of her set at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy

The Great Escape is the festival to be at for new music in the UK, gathering hundreds of the best upstart bands and artists of tomorrow for a three-day live music and industry networking event every year in Brighton.

Backed by massive brands and always delivering a varied and multi-national lineup, it’s provided a launchpad in recent years for the likes of Stormzy and Sigrid, and a continual opportunity to catch the bands that may or may not make it en masse.

The dust has only just settled on the 2018 festival, yet the 2019 roster is already starting to take shape. The dates are confirmed (Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th May) and the first fifty artists are already announced.

Among the cross-genre standouts announced so far for next year are indie pop faves Indoor Pets, Dutch star Pip Blom and fiery Scottish collective Lucia, plus Zuzu, Millie Turner and The Howl and the Hum.

To help kickstart our own hype for 2019, we’ve put together a throwback to five months ago, and the portraits we produced of some of our favourite artists back in May.

Shot on and around Brighton seafront by FEISTY editor Katy, our photos used bubble blowers and pebble burials to capture the likes of Soccer Mommy and ALMA, plus stars of tomorrow including Queen Zee and Calva Louise.

Early bird tickets are currently on sale for The Great Escape 2019, priced at £60. The festival’s more expensive delegate passes, affording entry to various networking and special events, are presently priced at £175.

Peaness

Peaness at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Peaness, from left to right, are Rachel Williams, Carlea “Balla” Balbenta and Jess Branley

Peaness – say the name out loud and it’ll make more sense – met up with us around the back of a music venue to play with three bubble blowers we picked up in a shop.

Drummer Rachel, guitarist-vocalist Carlea and singer-bassist Jess met while students at the University of Chester, staying in the city thereafter to craft their unique brand of bright indie pop. But for all their sugary harmonies, there’s also punch packed into their lyrics, and serious statements on issues like environmental damage and food waste.

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Peaness at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Peaness performed at Sticky Mike’s on the final evening of The Great Escape 2018

Soccer Mommy

Soccer Mommy at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Soccer Mommy was born in Switzerland but calls Nashville, the U.S. state where she was raised, her home

We met Soccer Mommy on the pebbles of Brighton seafront, close to a brand new beach stage that she played as one of 2018’s international stars.

Soccer Mommy – real name Sophie Allison – first emerged as a bedroom pop musician, creating a healthy buzz via Bandcamp and releasing EPs before signing for U.S. indie Fat Possum. Her debut album proper Clean flaunted a more indie pop style, underpinned by withdrawn, bittersweet themes. Released in March, it remains a 2018 favourite.

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Soccer Mommy at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Soccer Mommy released a new AA-side single – Henry / I’m On Fire – earlier this month

Haiku Hands

Haiku Hands at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Haiku Hands

The Great Escape 2018 marked Haiku Hands’ first ever performances outside of their native Australia, and we showed them around the seafront during their stay, snapping a few scrapbook photos next to some old boats.

The dazzling trio create indie bangers, turning plain live venues into sweltering raves, a bit like a suped-up version of old favourites The Go! Team. They’re back in the UK right now, with dates still to come in cities including Edinburgh, Newcastle and Sheffield.

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Haiku Hands at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
The Aussie trio are back in the UK this month, before playing in Germany and Scandinavia in November

Queen Zee

Queen Zee at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Queen Zee are named for their vocalist (centre), and are currently based on Merseyside

Queer heroes Queen Zee (previously known as Queen Zee and the Sasstones) played a thriving late night set in Brighton on the opening night of the 2018 event. We hooked up with the fivesome earlier in the day close to the venue.

Fronted by Zena “Obscene” Davine, Queen Zee’s in-your-face, spirited glam punk has made waves ever since their emergence in 2016. Unabashedly and proudly queer – and why shouldn’t they be – they’re a flourishing live scene sensation and one of the UK’s most essential new bands, even earning an endorsement from punk legend Iggy Pop.

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Queen Zee at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Queen Zee describe their music on Facebook as “queen rock”

ALMA

Alma at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
ALMA was born in 1996 in the Finnish city of Kuopio

We briefly hung out with ALMA in the lobby of her hotel, as she succeeded Sigrid as The Great Escape’s annual breakthrough pop star with a set on the popular VEVO stage.

ALMA stands out from a packed crowd of Scandi singers with her irreverent attitude and cocksure swagger, collaborating with the likes of Charli XCX and Tove Lo and hitting the UK chart with her 2017 single Chasing Highs. Her latest track, Cowboy, is a self-proclaimed move away from Eurodance and into more heartfelt, personal territory.

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Alma at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
ALMA first rose to fame in Finland on reality show Idols, finishing fifth at the age of 17

Dantevilles

Dantevilles at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Dantevilles have tweaked their lineup since we met them, replacing Cory Devine (pictured left) with Alexis Panidis

Daft Manchester lads Dantevilles met up with us next to Brighton’s iconic Palace Pier, messing around for a few photos on what we’re reliably informed is a groyne.

Their energetic, lively indie sound is simply good fun, and more unashamedly polished and earworm than many of their north-west contemporaries. Since the festival, they’ve tweaked their lineup, replacing drummer Cory Devine with former youth footballer Alexis Panidis.

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Dantevilles at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Dantevilles debuted in 2014 and released their first EP, Tight Lips, the following year

Tuvaband

Tuvaband at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Tuva is a product of Norway’s burgeoning indie scene, and is currently based in Oslo

Another of Scandinavia’s always healthy contingent in 2017 was Tuvaband. We hooked up with Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser for lunch overlooking the sea on the final day of the event, chatting about her music and the Norwegian scene before grabbing some portraits of her relaxing on the beach.

Tuvaband’s music is knowingly melancholy and bleak, with sparse arrangements dominated by Tuva’s voice. The funereal debut album, Soft Drop, was released last month on Brilliance Records, featuring the talents of Simon Would, Håkon Brunborg Kjenstad and Tuva’s father Børge Marschhäuser.

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Tuvaband at The Great Escape 2018
Tuvaband’s 9-track debut album Soft Drop was released on 7 September

Calva Louise

Calva Louise at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Calva Louise’s debuted single I’m Gonna Do Well was released in late 2016

Calva Louise headlined a showcase on the final night of this year’s Alternative Escape (the semi-official fringe of The Great Escape), supported by a slew of great new bands. We hung out with the trio for a few hours ahead of their set.

We flaunted our love for the fuzzy upstarts when we featured them prominently in our Women On Vox feature earlier this year. They’ve pushed on further still since, releasing two more memorable singles and amplifying their buzz by the month.

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Calva Louise at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Jess Allanic buries bandmate Alizon Taho with pebbles as Ben Parker sunbathes in the background

ONR.

ONR at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
ONR. – real name Robert Shields – hails from Dumfriesshire in Scotland

We risked life and limb with Scottish newcomer ONR. by snapping a few portraits on a slippery, seaweed-coated ridge after his set on the second day of the festival.

ONR. – pronounced as “honour” – formerly composed music for television, but now crafts bold indietronica and alternative pop. Openly influenced by some of Britain’s most iconic artists, he especially openly shows his admiration for David Bowie, citing the title of his 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) on his Facebook profile.

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ONR at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
ONR. is set to release a new single, MUST STOP, this Friday

Halo Maud

Halo Maud at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Halo Maud was raised in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, a region in the centre of France

Closing out our round-up of the class of 2018 is psych-pop breakthrough Halo Maud. We met her on the second day of The Great Escape for an early afternoon portrait shoot on the pier.

Maud is part of a stacked Heavenly Recordings roster that presently boasts Hatchie, Amber Arcades and Anna Burch, and fits in perfectly with her Francophile brand of prog-inspired psychedelia. Her debut album Je suis une île dropped in May, flitting between English and her native tongue and swooping from the catchy to the experimental in a tale of two halves.

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Halo Maud at The Great Escape 2018. Photo: Katy
Maud has just completed a UK tour, and now embarks on a run of dates in Spain and France

The Great Escape 2019 takes place in Brighton, UK from 9-11 May. The lineup so far can be found here. Tickets are on sale now from GreatEscapeFestival.com.

Premiere: Girl Crush – Warm Blooded

The new single from London duo Girl Crush is one of the most exquisite alt-pop tracks we’ve heard so far this year.

Warm Blooded is icy pop heaven, a luscious love story loaded with bassy synthesizers, sumptuously led by the project’s Swedish vocalist, and infectiously replayable.

Described by their secretive singer as “the slow dance banger you’ve waited all prom night for”, it’s a tale of being lost in love, while the insatiable sound is highly reminiscent of Anna of the North’s relaxed Nordic electropop.

Check out our exclusive premiere of Warm Blooded below:

Girl Crush are a British-Swedish twosome coupling their trendy sounds with a fashion project, releasing limited-edition streetwear with every single.

Although their vocalist has previously made waves as part of another act, they’ve kept her identity under wraps for now, allowing Girl Crush’s music – less chiseled and clean-cut than previous projects – to speak up for itself.

The Girl Crush debut single Small Talk dropped in March, a bright pop song driven by lush synths, peppered with comfy guitars, and released without a label.

Now partnered with Norway’s Brilliance Records, Warm Blooded is out tomorrow, while the duo go live with a headline show at The Waiting Room in London on 6 September.

Warm Blooded Lyrics

I keep looking at my phone
Are you out or are you home?
And the message that I sent
Are you reading it with friends or alone?

There’s something that I wanna share
But I’m worried it’ll scare you off
When I tell you how I feel, how I feel
I feel hot

You make me feel warm blooded
Feel like this could go on, and on, and on
I’m lost in your love
I’m lost in your love

And now we’d better stay cool
‘Cos nothing ever happens when you make all the wrong moves
Now we gotta stay cool
Now we gotta stay cool

Did I find it hard to put into words
There’s nothing I can do about it
I’m lost in your love
And I’m feeling kind of strong about it

There’s something that I wanna share
But I’m worried it’ll scare you off
When I tell you how I feel, how I feel
I feel hot, and I’m burning up

You make me feel warm blooded
Feel like this could go on, and on, and on
I’m lost in your love
I’m lost in your love

And now we’d better stay cool
‘Cos nothing ever happens when you make all the wrong moves
Now we gotta stay cool
Now we gotta stay cool

You and I and the headlight
We’ve been on this floor baby all night
We can hit it hard in the summertime
And just have it made in the winter

Let’s carry on past midnight
Let every part of us ignite
We always hit it hard in the summertime
So let us have it made in the winter

Now we’d better stay cool
‘Cos nothing ever happens when you make all the wrong moves
Now we gotta stay cool
Now we gotta stay cool

You make me feel warm blooded
Feel like this could go on, and on, and on
I’m lost in your love
I’m lost in your love