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...
Sidney Franklyn
Sep 21, 2020
Review: Elderbrook - Why Do We Shake in the Cold?
A mixed offering from the potent pop voice...
Sidney Franklyn
Sep 20, 2020
Review: A. G. Cook - Apple
Almost impossible to truly summarise...
Sidney Franklyn
Sep 16, 2020
Review: Paul Epworth - Voyager
A pop rap fusion that doesn't quite achieve lift off...
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...
Sidney Franklyn
Aug 17, 2020
The Genre That Melted Into Air
Vaporwave’s unstable ideology & the politics of art in the digital age.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Sidney Franklyn
Nov 2, 2019
Hurtling In Retrograde
How much longer will our cultural past dictate the present?
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...
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...
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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