Frances Morgan

May 13, 2024 | new.thequietus.com | Frances Morgan |John Doran |Daryl Worthington

On Purity Garrett dives into angry surreality. It’s a record which grasps the disorientation that comes from mania and extreme emotion, how the external world warps your mood. The album is a response to Garrett finding a neighbour’s dead body, and how he processed that trauma while also confronting his own suicidal ideation. It’s a bleak record, but it creates lucidity from the light it shines into these dark crevices.

Apr 9, 2024 | thewire.co.uk | Frances Morgan |Claire Biddles |Peter Margasak |Antonio Poscic

May 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 483. Inside our brand new issue: Still House Plants: London’s post-post-punk trio use deconstructed songform to tap emotions others cannot reach. By Frances MorganFUJI|||||||||||TA: Pulling out the stops with homemade pipe organs. By Antonio PoscicCheer-Accident: Thymme Jones’s motley crew of Chicago outsiders flip the conventions of the rock band.

Sep 7, 2023 | thewire.co.uk | Frances Morgan

Since 2005, The Wire has run a semi-regular series of features exploring the connections between music and the places it’s made in. Rather than reporting on what’s happening right now in a particular location, the Once Upon A Time In… series focuses on key moments and movements in underground music history, and asks why and how they developed where they did.

Aug 8, 2023 | thewire.co.uk | Frances Morgan |David Grundy |Neil Kulkarni |Francis Gooding

September 2023 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 475.

Feb 22, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Frances Morgan

In​ 2019, all four artists nominated for the Turner Prize – Helen Cammock, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani – shared the award, not at the instigation of the judges but at the request of the artists themselves, who asked to be considered as a collective rather than individual entrants, ‘in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity’.