He’s no Michael Jackson. No Prince either, as the Super Bowl halftime show testified this year: the well-meaning tribute to the Purple One backfired, accidentally exposing the critical weakness of Timberlake’s performance, which featured too much dancing, and too little…
Album Review: Craig David – “The Time is Now”
Poor old Craig David. Once a pop superstar in his native Britain, and to a lesser extent in America, he was soon mocked into submission by the caricatured impersonation of him on the British cult sketch comedy show Bo’ Selecta!, which…
Album Review: CupcakKe – “Ephorize”
You should be able to work out from song titles like “Spoiled Milk Titties” that Chicagoan rapper CupcakKe is not for the squeamish. She specialises in potty-mouthed humour, like a female Lil Wayne, and has gifted us before with such…
Album Review: Miguel – “War & Leisure”
I’ve read a lot of pieces comparing Miguel to Prince ever since this album’s release. That comparison at first seems right, because Miguel is a supremely talented polymath auteur (singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist) who lingers on sex in his songs…
Album Review: Sampha – “Process”
Sampha is a singer, songwriter, and producer from London, and appears to be an innately modest man despite his triple-edged sabre of talent. He’s been on the scene for over a decade, beefing up tracks by famous artists (Beyoncé, Solange,…
Album Review: Morrissey – “Low in High School”
It’s customary to start a Morrissey review by detailing all of the awful things he’s recently said or done, and then questioning how you could ever have been charmed by such a man. Well, I’ll oblige: his recent remarks in…
Album Review: The Corrs – “Jupiter Calling”
For a band that’s so polite they make Ed Sheeran sound like Motörhead, it stands as something of a bold move for The Corrs to reference the Roman God of thunder in their album’s title. Thunderous they are not; they…
