"Free Yourself": An Already Incredible Jessie Ware Era Begins
"Free yoursеlf, keep on moving up that mountain top..." Jessie Ware supplied a much-needed escape during the darkest months of 2020 with What's Your Pleasure?, then extended the pleasure with the Platinum edition one year later. And now, in case all that wasn't enough (too much is never…
Turkey's Aleyna Tilki Makes English Debut With a Dua Lipa Discard
Everything about this story is right up my street. Meet Aleyna Tilki: she's a 20-year-old Turkish singer-songwriter. Aleyna first rose to fame in 2014 as a semi-finalist on Season 6 of Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye - or Turkey's Got Talent (!), then got very famous for covering a song called "Gesi…
'What's Your Pleasure?': Jessie Ware Finds What Feels Good Again
"Push, press, more, less...here together, what's your pleasure?" Jessie Ware is no stranger to dance music. That's how we first met her a decade ago, crooning across skittering, mind-melting productions from acts like SBTRKT and Joker, as well as lifting off with the popular Disclosure remix of…
‘Physical’: Dua Lipa Is Putting the Pulse Back in Pop
Introspection and somber reflection regarding the State of Things Today are important elements of modern pop. But in the current climate, which often feels heavy with personal confessionals, anxiety and depression-themed anthems and worldweary political commentary (and, well, that general…