From cover stories to
live reviews, via long-
form features and more.
Cover stories
Cover story: Amaarae
NME
June, 2024
After a watershed year that catapulted her to the dazzling ranks of global pop stardom, the Ghanaian-American musician is reconnecting with her roots and recentering her intentions
Cover story: PinkPantheress
Crack Magazine
November, 2021
PinkPantheress’ followers on TikTok grew by 200,000 in the time it took to write this profile. Don't worry, she’s ready for it. Her first-ever cover story.
Cover story: Millionz
Crack Magazine
March, 2021
The softly-spoken rapper from Birmingham is ready to show, not tell. One of Crack Magazine's four UK rap covers, for Issue 118.
Cover story: Roska
Beatportal
July, 2020
I spoke to British dance music luminary, Roska, about his storied career and his role in the second wave of UK funky.
Cover story: Jubilee
Beatportal
March, 2021
Refusing to follow trends, NYC's Jubilee has won success exactly where it counts.
Cover story: Mura Masa
Mixmag
January, 2020
Mura Masa faced down difficult second album syndrome by doing exactly what he wanted to in the studio.
Cover story: Kelela
Mixmag
December, 2019
Kelela and Asmara talk creativity, collaboration and tenderness for Mixmag’s partnership with Warp Records for the imprint’s 30th anniversary. The other three covers featured Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus and Yves Tumor.
Features + interviews
Yaya Bey: Give In (Crack Magazine)
Tyler Lewis: the scene-stealing R&B star with a timeless voice (NME)
Rising: Coffintexts is embracing her dance music era (Crack Magazine)
Aesthetic: UNIIQU3 is taking Jersey club to new heights (Crack Magazine)
BackRoad Gee walks his own way (Crack Magazine)
Brainfeeder at 15 (Crack Magazine)
Caroline Polachek on ‘Bunny is a Rider’ and collaborating with Danny L Harle (Crack Magazine)
Burial’s ‘Untrue’ at 15 (Crack Magazine)
LSDXOXO: “I need to be on to the next thing constantly” (The Face)
Glorious chaos in the Glastonbury fields: An interview with Block9 (Crack Magazine)
Life, works and legacy: 10 artists on Ryuichi Sakamoto and his everlasting impact (Crack Magazine)
Ready for rebirth: FAUZIA is leaving the club behind (Mixmag)
Recognise: Jasmine Infiniti (DJ Mag)
Deena Abdelwahed’s intense, experimental sonics are the product of political strife (Mixmag)
How Butterz changed the blueprint for independent UK labels (DJ Mag)
See also:
A chat with Afrodeutsche for the Glastonbury Free Press (2022); commissions, interviews and words for Crack’s monthly print magazine and its ‘regular’ one-pagers: The Grind (a cooking slot), Pin-Drop (a location-based series),The Click (an as-told-to interview series); events write-ups and more. Plus end-of-year list contributions, including mix round-ups, and track of the year deep-ish-dives. I’m also a Voting Academy member for the annual MOBO Awards.
For Crack’s print magazine, I’ve interviewed the likes of Sudan Archives, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Mills, Mahalia, Damon Albarn, Soccer Mommy, Bodega, 700 Bliss, Ron Trent, Omega Sapien, Cakes da Killa, Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, Benjamin Clementine, Authentically Plastic, Eddie Chacon, Gigi Masin, KMRU, Bok Bok and more.
Reviews
Releases
Kelela ‘Raven’ (Crack Magazine)
Burial ‘Antidawn’ (Crack Magazine)
Dark0 ‘Eternity’ (Resident Advisor)
Dawn Richard ‘Second Line’ (Resident Advisor)
Malibu ‘One Life: four remixes’ (Resident Advisor)
Rewind: Sticky ‘Things We Do’ feat. Kele Le Roc (Resident Advisor)
Rewind: Sonique ‘It Feels So Good’ (Resident Advisor)
Find all RA reviews here and tune into my (incredibly nervous!) Critics Roundtable episode below.