Laura Snapes

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes |Ben Beaumont-Thomas

From Boise, IdahoRecommended if you like Devo, Chai, Remi Wolf Up next Debut album Switcheroo released via Innovative Leisure on 27 JuneThe freshly hatched Gelli Haha is an old-school pop world-builder. The aesthetic world of her few singles so far recalls a kids’ soft-play centre, all bright primary colours and bouncy surfaces. Live, she fires bubble guns into the air, surrounded by caged inflatable sea creatures and red-clad backing dancers dressed as boxers.

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Laura Snapes

Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s Self Esteem became a self-fulfilling prophecy. After spending years as a drummer in British indie-pop band Slow Club, she gave herself a new stage name to juice her self-confidence. Her sound got bigger, rowdier, weirder. Her lyrics about being disappointed by useless men often undercut their sting with a gut-punch of pathos.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes

One of this year’s best EPs was partly inspired by a cryptic dream about a Muppet dying. As Elmo floated into the abyss, New York musician Jane Paknia unexpectedly realised she was living the musical dream that had always felt just out of reach. Paknia, 24, had been frustrated that she couldn’t connect her youth as a talented pianist (taught by her Iranian grandmother) and brass player with her boundary-pushing inspirations Sophie and Alice Coltrane. But you sense she was being hard on herself.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.