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Sidney Franklyn
Jan 12, 2021
The 5 Best Short Releases of 2020
There were a load of great short releases this year. Out of the 31 I listened to, these are my five favourite.
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 21, 2020
Is Britney Really Free?
In the State of California, the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21. To drive a car it’s 16 years old; it’s 14 to hold a job. The...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 21, 2020
Review: Elderbrook - Why Do We Shake in the Cold?
A mixed offering from the potent pop voice...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 20, 2020
Review: A. G. Cook - Apple
Almost impossible to truly summarise...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 16, 2020
Review: Paul Epworth - Voyager
A pop rap fusion that doesn't quite achieve lift off...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 11, 2020
Introducing: Armed With Bow
Having premiered a new mixtape on his Threads Radio show Through the F-Hole, cellist and electronic composer Will Langstone talked me thr...
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Sidney Franklyn
Aug 17, 2020
The Genre That Melted Into Air
Vaporwave’s unstable ideology & the politics of art in the digital age.
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Sidney Franklyn
Aug 17, 2020
Introducing: Eki Shola
Following the release of her new album Essential, the singer and multi-instrumentalist decrypts the project for Sidney Franklyn.
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Sidney Franklyn
Aug 17, 2020
Review: Eki Shola - Essential
The myth of the ‘tortured artist’ is a trope so familiar to our collective consciousness that it has already received its rightful reckon...
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Sidney Franklyn
Aug 3, 2020
Introducing: the mermaid café
Coinciding with the release of their debut single, I took a peek into the delicate little world carved out by the experimental pop duo.
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Sidney Franklyn
Jun 23, 2020
Review: Balm - Mauve
Mauve, the debut album from Amsterdam-based ambient duo Balm, is an exercise in restraint. Every moving part faultlessly enacts its own...
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Sidney Franklyn
Nov 2, 2019
Hurtling In Retrograde
How much longer will our cultural past dictate the present?
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Sidney Franklyn
Oct 2, 2019
From the Archives: Interview with Orphy Robinson
Back in late 2018 ahead of his Saffron Hall performance, I caught up with the boundary-pushing band-leader to talk Van Morrison, the stat...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 28, 2019
Review: Ameer Vann - Emmanuel EP
With the controversial rapper's first new material since his forced departure from Brockhampton, it's unclear if any lessons have been le...
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Sidney Franklyn
Sep 21, 2019
Review: The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time Stages 1-6
After nearly two decades, James Kirby finally puts to death his haunted ballroom project 'The Caretaker'. If only accusations of romantic...
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