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Most of my recent writing has been for The Rodeo, an independent online and in-print music magazine. I have been published regularly in the magazine since Volume 2, interviewing artists such as Alfie Templeman, Ezra Furman and Marika Hackman - I most recently wrote the cover interview for Volumes 13 and 15, where I interviewed ​The War On Drugs and MUNA respectively.

While print content is exclusive to the magazine – which you can buy here – below are some examples of written pieces I've had published on The Rodeo's website. 

Alongside the writing itself, I have been an Editor for The Rodeo since June 2019, starting out with the online pieces and moving more recently into the proofreading and editing of each magazine volume. 

Visit their main site here, or my author's page here.
MUNA for Vol. 15. Credit: Caity Krone.
MUNA for Vol. 15. Credit: Caty Krone.

Lord Huron took me on a journey out West

28/2/2020

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To celebrate National Album Day, we’re going through the albums that mean something to us and telling the stories behind what makes them so special.

I like to think I have a broad scope for music, traversing both decades and genres in what has become a rather confused Spotify collection. Playlists a-plenty, of course, but I count myself as a big believer in the strength of a well-thought-out LP. Running themes and song reprises make me want to do cartwheels on the side of the road; I would fight a mighty dragon for the fair hand of a ‘concept album’. Luckily, we’re not short of them: artists have been desperate to prove they can pull it off ever since The Beatles started the trend with Sgt Pepper back in ’67, with varying success among them. I’ve browsed the board, partial to many, but no album has ever branded itself into my heart quite so deeply as Lord Huron’s sophomore LP, Strange Trails.

In an unknown land, somewhere between the barriers of life and death, fiction and reality, we join Lord Huron on a journey out West. Driving through the night, heart-broken and lost, we enter a world of distinctive characters and profound magic: men come back from the dead, hell-bent on revenge as they roam the desert; romantics pick fights and trek for miles through dangerous terrain; mortals play with dark forces and suffer the consequences.
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​While fictional in many aspects, there is no struggle to be had in relating to the album’s recurring themes: lust, love, fury, heartache. Haven’t we all at some point felt as though under some unshakable spell, no longer in our right minds at the hands of a lover? ...

Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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