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15 minutes agoStar Moles: Highway to Hell
Emily Moales' album Highway to Hell presents a whimsical yet grounded exploration of mundane life and personal struggles in one's mid-twenties.
Rather than simply repeating the wrecking-ball momentum and fist-shaking incredulity of his previous work, WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE takes a fairly intimate view of the usually enigmatic $ilk.
"The lure of travel, I thought, is only the lure of illusion, the mistaken belief that in a new country with different people and different ways, we can escape the confines of ourselves..."
I find that so hilarious, beams Patrick Wolf, a supposedly missing man, yet sat staring at me in an off-white vest top with slicked back bleach blonde hair via Zoom from his home on the Kent coast, where he moved post-lockdown.
A lot of stuff with my family ended up becoming public, and it unraveled. It played with my peace, played with my emotions. I think that ended up carrying out onto the field, not being able to focus.