Wishes, by Tiny Habits. What a heartbreaker open.spotify.com/album/5SGGfUHX…

🤍These chemicals hit me like whiiiiite wiiiiine 🤍

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'Through the skill of her songwriting (and I’m not sure it’s been better), Taylor Swift moves beyond the diaristic to something impressionistic and, yes, poetic. And universal' | ✍️ Dan Cairns

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★★★★★

Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift review

Fans’ fervent speculation about the truth behind Swift’s songs misses the point — they are as rich and concise as a short story collection | Dan Cairns ⬇️
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Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department is a tour de force of scene-setting and storytelling. My review for Times Culture #TSTTPD #TTPD

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Listening to English Teacher's debut album, This Could Be Texas, and am overwhelmed by it. A stone cold masterpiece. It's released on April 12. You need this record in your lives

Doing a huge book cull. Walking proudly into the vacated space, ⁦The Magic Numbers⁩ figurines. Don’t they look swell?

Filming begins on the same sixth instalment

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Everything Everything’s Jonathan Higgs: ‘Our inspiration? Liz Truss and Ronnie Pickering’

The Manchester band’s frontman discusses eclectic sources for their music and being unashamedly weird | ✍️ Dan Cairns

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Bananarama ruled the 1980s charts but were dismissed as ‘frothy pop puppets’. They talk girl power, parties and the night they rode home in a bin lorry with Noel Gallagher | ✍️ Dan Cairns

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A concept album partly inspired by Liz Truss's mini budget and road-raging Ronnie Pickering? Had a fascinating chat with Jonathan Higgs of Everything Everything about the origins of the band's brilliant new record, Mountainhead

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From horror show to triumph! This is the moment when pianist Maria Joao Pires realises - as the orchestra starts to play - that she has learned the wrong piece for a concert. With no sheet music to fall back on, she has to keep calm and carry on. She is AMAZING. As is conductor…

This is sublime. Such fantastic writing.

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Shaznay Lewis on the rise and fall of All Saints

All Saints were the Nineties ‘bad girls’ band who imploded at the top. Shaznay Lewis says it was her songwriting that saved her | ✍️ Dan Cairns

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Jesus christ, forgotten how powerful this is. 3mins 56secs on is almost too much. That chamber section at the end. Devastating open.spotify.com/track/2lrQ65R0…