Album of the Week: boygenius – record

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Boygenius is a ‘supergroup’ consisting of three Queens of US Indie, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. This new “record” follows on from their initial 2018 EP. They’ve all poured their creativity and inspiration into this collective effort quite selflessly, judging by the quality of the songs. There is a beautiful range of variety on this album, with excellent production. We look forward to checking out what Apple Music described as a record that “doesn’t sound like any of their own albums but does sound like an album only the three of them could make”.

Album of the Week: Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited

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Bobby Gentry is one of those intriguing legends. A smash hit off her first album with “Ode to Billie Joe”, she was one of the first female artists to write her own songs. She produced seven studio albums, and performed until the late 1970s until she lost interest in performing. That’s it. No reunion tours, anniversary tours etc.

The world was her oyster when she produced her second album The Delta Sweete. Pitchfork brilliantly described it as “full of technicolor arrangements, oddball collages, and playful sexual innuendos”.

Now Mercury Rev (formed in Buffalo, New York in the late 1980s), described as psych-pop masters have turned to this lost gem. Reshaping the songs with a string of big name singers (Phoebe Bridgers, Beth Orton and Lucinda Williams amongst them) we’re in for something a bit different this week – should be a treat!