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St Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ delivers modern pathos in vintage clothes

  • Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021
  • A Struggle for Culture

Given the ubiquity of 1980s sounds and aesthetic in modern pop music (recently taken past the point of tedium by Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts and The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’), it was only a matter of time before someone asked, “Why is no-one tapping the vast…

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Billie Eilish

Ergo ho hum: Billie Eilish’s new single is her least inventive. Where does she go next?

  • Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021
  • A Struggle for Culture

First published on Medium on November 13th, 2020   “Articles, articles, articles, write that you remain unremarkable” The above is the best line in ‘Therefore I Am’, a new single from the sister-brother musical team of Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, released on Thursday. What’s…

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