HALSEY

Another big-voiced female, this time from across the pond and armed with more slow-beat anthems that are as inconsequential as some of the Eyres, Sandes and Oras of this world. What has happened to pop-music in the last ten years? I can't remember any of the songs on this album after four plays through - I mean it's not like I don't try with these albums, fuck knows I could be doing something far more productive like grinding my earlobes with a Bosch sander or using my arse as a golf bunker. "We are the new Americana..., high on legal marijuana" she pipes on New Americana. Who cares.

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Paul PLEDGER
13/09/2015