Kitty Empire
Pop Critic at The Guardian
Sonic filtering system Pop critic, The Observer Views are mine she/her
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kitty Empire
Strange concoctions, crime-solving kids, plus aliens, spies and Alex Horne by the sea Middle years has long felt like a natural home for “cosy crime” – little blood, and with a discreet veil over violence. It comes as no surprise, then, that the “queen of cosy crime”, Janice Hallett, should publish her children’s debut, A Box Full of Murders (Puffin).
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kitty Empire
As stagehands mop rain off the stage, the Texas superstar’s Cowboy Carter tour delivers a surfeit of spectacle – and appearances by both her daughters – with the hits secondary to a call to Black identity “Earned all this money but they never take the country out me,” sings Beyoncé, about a quarter of the way through her Cowboy Carter tour set. Jets of steam billow up from the complex geometric runway to emphasise the point.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kitty Empire
Cocker and co are back to their best on their first new record for 24 years The title of Pulp’s eighth album nods with deadpan northern brevity at this unexpected third act in the Sheffield band’s long history – but also at an expanded, saturated, heightened version of a group that drew its recording career to a halt 24 years ago with the Scott Walker-produced We Love Life.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kitty Empire
Simz’s uncompromising sixth album is full of anger towards her former producer over an unpaid debt, as the rapper’s raw emotion leads to fresh experiments In eastern cultures, the lotus flower often symbolises purity and resilience, its elegance in marked contrast to the muddy waters from which it grows.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kitty Empire
Isle of Wight indie rock darlings Wet Leg still strike a power pose, but as they tour their forthcoming album, Moisturizer, a more romantic strain has crept into their songs… Rhian Teasdale is striking a pose. Wreathed in dry ice, long pale hair whipped around by a fan, she flexes her muscles at the crowd, the backlighting accentuating her statuesque form. This show of strength from Wet Leg’s singing guitarist has a new song to go with it – Catch These Fists, the band’s comeback track.
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Also - because I have range, I guess? - here are some of the #middlegrade #childrensbooksoftheyear that stood proud on the shelf in 2024. Includes clockworks, narwhals, neurodiversity and - sob - the late, lovely Jeremy Strong. (No, not that one.) https://t.co/VvKRGDVOvi
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I also had the absurd task of whittling down the umpteen rewarding #albumsof2024 down to a frankly skeletal 10. Includes shakuhachis, club classics, orchestral jazz, plunging asymptotes and a folk tune about an awl. https://t.co/cBm8aQpKyg
