Jenn Pelly

Dec 4, 2024 | thequietus.com | Ana Da Silva |Joe Dunthorne |Jenn Pelly |Christian Eede

Seefeel have released a new mini-album, titled Squared Roots. Spanning seven tracks, it features previously unreleased cuts lifted from the recording sessions that birthed the album Everything Squared, which was released earlier this year and marked the group’s first album in 13 years. The new release is billed as a more dubbed-out and ambient take on the material that made up the previous record.

Nov 20, 2024 | i-d.co | Jenn Pelly

Joan Didion is on C-SPAN in the year 2000. Eve Babitz of Hollywood is on the line. Thirty-six minutes into this three-hour sweep of Didion’s formidable career – in which the literary titan has already discussed the Manson murders and The Central Park Five and the centre not holding on Haight-Ashbury, the charade of America’s political processes and her opinions on rock stars – Babitz calls up just to say how nice it is to see her friend on the air.

Oct 29, 2024 | i-d.co | Jenn Pelly |Trevor Wisecup

The ground is shaking at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens. The young crowd at the borough’s premiere velvet-curtained rock bar is here to see the electronic trio Kassie Krut open for Safe Mind, the new project from cult zillennial pop artist Cooper B. Handy, and the noise rattles our legs to the bone. Awash in red light, Kassie Krut organise themselves in a row.

Oct 16, 2024 | thequietus.com | Ana Da Silva |Joe Dunthorne |Jenn Pelly |Bobby Barry

Musically, South Yorkshire has been a region that has historically punched above its weight, one of the country’s great producers of artistic iconoclasts. The 70s’ greatest jazz guitarist, John McLaughlin, was kicking around the streets of Donny before he took his skronk across the pond, whilst Threads-era Sheffield was the backdrop for The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Clock DVA as they crafted a form of tetchy synthesiser music that thoroughly inverted the saccharine pop music of the era.

Oct 8, 2024 | jennpelly.substack.com | Jenn Pelly

Many days, in the summer and fall of 2023, I felt like my job was to wake up and hang out in my head with the late, great Margo Guryan. I had been commissioned to write liner notes for a 46-track Numero Group box set, titled Words and Music, archiving Margo’s brilliant work across jazz, chamber pop, and singer-songwriter terrain.