Quasi - Leeds Brudenell, May 1st 2023 (LIVE REVIEW)

It’s a quarter century since I first tripped over Quasi, a formerly husband and wife duo peddling a slightly cartoonish yet strangely alluring Rock-Si-Chord powered indie-pop, the instrument in question producing a phat-as-phuq sound, somewhere in between Wurlitzer, Rhodes and Harpsichord. Their superb break-up track ‘I Never Want to See You Again’ graced many a late 1990s music magazine compilation although I have absolutely no recollection of their support set before Elliott Smith’s unforgettable 1999 Manchester University show which I was supremely fortunate to witness, funny that.  

boygenius ‘the record’ (album review)

“Supergroup” feels like one of the most loaded terms in music. It’s a statement of fact, but one which carries a potent subtext of inevitable creative differences and clashing egos, underwhelming output and bitter recriminations – in a word, disharmony. But boygenius, the collaboration between Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, is the very definition of harmony and respect, a united front against the concept of “women with guitars” as a genre.