Emily Mackay

Plan B Speaks Up – Inside This Week’s NME

In this week's NME, Plan B hangs up the soul suit and returns to his scouring social hip-hop roots with the exhilarating, angry 'ill...

First Listen – Tribes, ‘Baby’

As a Scot and a music journalist, I like things that are distilled. I particularly appreciate people with a eye and an ear for...

The Song That Changed My Life – Nirvana, ‘Lithium’

In the first of a new series that sees writers and musicians reflect on the one track that caused a siesmic shift for them,...

Justice, ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ – First Listen

Our first impressions of Justice's second LP Dance’s music’s sexiest duo know that the facelessness of much of the genre demands something more than a...

Listomania – What Are the Best Running Songs?

Tomorrow, I'm running the Berlin Marathon. CLANG! But don't worry, I'm not feeling particularly smug about it right now. It's more like a cross...

First Listen – Nicola Roberts, ‘Cinderella’s Eyes’

It seems like there’s always one in every girl group who tries to go the arty/indie route, as if the constraints of commercial pop...

Ed Sheeran – ‘+’ Review

People really do get hung up on authenticity, don't they? Ed Sheeran has been ticking integrity-boxes so fast you can practically hear his hands still...

Album review: Example – ‘Playing In The Shadows’

The world needs Example and his gurning rave-hop, lowering the tone and turning the charts into a week-long episode of Skins, calling out Arctic...

First Listen – Girls, ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’

Girls’ Christopher Owens and JR White returned to the same slightly seedy area of San Francisco that birthed their 2009 debut ‘Album’ to...

Kai Fish, ‘Life In Monochrome’ – First Listen

Sometimes, you just write things, and you're not even sure what's coming out. Indeed, you'll often find me doing just that right here on...
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