Album reviews with Ian Sinclair
– February 6, 2018
A TOURING musician with Shearwater and Jesca Hoop, US musician Lucas Oswald recorded his second solo album close to his home in rural Missouri. An exploration of depression and anxiety, the record’s eight songs are an impressive slice of melancholic rock.Celibacy in the Catholic Church; Jesca Hoop
– January 18, 2018
A discussion on the allegations of abuse within the Catholic Church. Plus songwriter Jesca Hoop, and novelist Patricia Duncker on The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge.Jesca Hoop at Union Chapel, London, review: Older material leaves little impression
– December 5, 2017
An extraordinary feast of talented female singer-songwriters are lighting up the music scene at present. I’m thinking of Aldous Harding, Waxahatchee, Julia Jacklin, Angel Olsen, Feist, Cate le Bon – and Jesca Hoop. For me, Hoop’s current LP ...