'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Guido Farnell, Journalist

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Album Review: Emotional Oranges – The Juice: Vol II
"[A] feelgood soundtrack for good times."
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Album Review: SebastiAn – Thirst
"[O]f course the instrumentals are all bangers."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sampa The Great, Thandiswa Mazwai, Genesis Owusu, Dallas Woods, Mwanjé
"[Sampa The Great] spits her flow with poise and plenty of power."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sui Zhen, Sad, Punko
"[T]here is so much soul to [Becky] Freeman's songs that everything feels very human."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
"[R]avishingly beautiful."
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Album Review: Temples – Hot Motion
"[A] dark, contemporaneous spin on the groovy glitter of retro glam."
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Album Review: Sui Zhen - Losing, Linda
"Sui Zhen continues to create a strange new sound that is uniquely her own."
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Album Review: Brittany Howard – Jaime
"[J]ust aches with emotion."
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Album Review: Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls
"[Natasha] Khan is far too romantic and heartbroken to be any kind of femme fatale."
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Album Review: HTRK – Venus In Leo
"[A]rtfully executed pop."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Supersense MAXIMAL
"Performing in the round, [John Maus] stalks the stage, staring us down and releasing the most visceral screams."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Wallop
"There's a funkiness about everything !!! try on this album."
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