In Review: Julien Baker – ‘Hardline’

Exerting her authority and talent as a songwriter, ‘Hardline’ is the kind of track that will one day find Julien Baker in an arena of thousands of fans in a crowd screaming her own lyrics back at her.

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LIVE: The Cinematic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall

Enduring and ever-eclectic, The Cinematic Orchestra drew strength from the strangeness of the show’s setting: seeing the musicians alone onstage within this vast, empty shell of a building seemed to give expression to the collective experience of a year marked by more silence, space, and solitude.

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Stewart Lee’s Guide to The Nightingales

Ahead of King Rocker’s release this Saturday on Sky Arts, the 41st best standup of all time has been so kind as to put together a beginner’s guide to the subject of his documentary to get us up to speed.

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In Review: The Antlers – ‘Solstice’

There’s something sunnily contemplative about the Brooklyn duo’s latest single, reminding us to keep it “bright, bright, bright” in a mantra-like way despite our old lives become more and more vague.

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