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[Friday Feature] Valere: Interview & Review of Single/Video ‘Lily’s March’
KATIE BROWN — 19 APR 2024
Ōtautahi/Christchurch songstress Valere’s ‘Lily’s March’ is a powerful single with soul. Released mid-March, it hovers between minimal R&B and maximal synth pop, with steady marching drums forming the backdrop for swelling synths and glockenspiel accents. The track is a special ode to motherhood, its inspiration springing from a restless night with then-new daughter Lily, who was struggling to sleep.
Ōtautahi R&B artist Valere discusses her new single ‘Lily’s March’.
Tāmaki Makaurau artist Erny Belle recently released her brilliant sophomore album ‘Not Your Cupid,’ and we were delighted to catch up with her for an interview. Read it within, along with our album review.
Te-Whanganui-a-Tara act Sig Wilder & Friends release music video for new single ‘Texasman’. Watch the video and read our interview with Sig Wilder within!
Vocalist/songwriter Jeremy Redmore and modern orchestral/ambient artist Levi Patel release beautiful collaborative EP ‘Migrations’.
Ah, those pesky in-between spaces! Katie Brown explores what might be hiding in them in this new feature, which has an accompanying playlist AND very cute t-shirt you can buy!
Indianapolis artist Jackson VanHorn releases intriguing new instrumental EP ‘Liminal Music, Vol.1’.
Rachel Soo Thow of The Lit List reviews Sophia Hembeck’s ‘Things I Have Loved’.
Jazmine Mary releases beguiling and thought-provoking new album ‘Dog’. Read our interview with Jazmine within!
Tāmaki Makaurau artist Emily Rice releases gorgeous new music video/single ‘Warenoa’.
Tāmaki Makaurau artist Davidda releases cathartic new single ‘Bear’, a collaboration with Anna Coddington.
Book Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Reading Sally Rooney’s latest, Beautiful World, Where Are You (BWWAY), struck a familiar chord and I found myself thinking about Lena Dunham’s show, Girls (2012—2017). In the HBO show’s sophomore season finale, Marnie reads the first sentence of Hannah’s eBook— ‘a friendship between college girls is grander and dramatic than any romance.’ She smiles wanly. It’s a summation of the tumultuous road of Marnie and Hannah’s friendship, which over the course of the first two seasons goes from peacefully spooning in bed, sharing cupcakes in bathtubs, to hurling insults and toothbrushes, ignoring phone calls, hiding from one another, as they drift into a constant state of flux which becomes the series status quo until its conclusion.
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