Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (Movementt)
Her ability to overdub against herself, creating the illusion of live interaction, is startling and thrilling to hear. Too often, one person music has a certain sterility and airlessness, but Thackray’s work is loose and groove-oriented. — Phil Freeman
Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace (Superpang)
“Femme Endings” is a reference to Susan McClary’s book Feminine Endings
, in which the musicologist gleefully cuts a swathe through the gender biases in musicology (...). In Hayes’s hands, the echo to McClary stands, although here it’s modified by the multiple meanings and sexual identities that the word femme denotes (simply, it’s not the same as feminine). — Louise Gray
