Ladyhawke: Wild Things review – hook-laden but strangely mechanical pop

(Mid Century Records) Best known for My Delirium and Paris Is Burning, the two sulky synthpop singles she released in 2008, on this third album the New Zealand singer-songwriter Pip Brown ditches the brooding for a collection of pop that seems to take the early work of Katy Perry as its main point of reference. Itâ€™s that kind of grooveless, flatly bombastic and faintly retro subgenre-dodging pop-pop that even Perry herself has complicated in recent years. Brown may have hooks coming out o...

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16:14 on June 2 2016

Ladyhawke On New Album ‘Wild Things’, The Loss Of David Bowie & Loving L.A.: Interview

Idolator — On the eve of her new synth-pop album’s release, Pip Brown talks to us about a variety of wild things. more info

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20:00 on June 2 2016

Ladyhawke: Wild Things review – hook-laden but strangely mechanical pop

Guardian Music — (Mid Century Records) Best known for My Delirium and Paris Is Burning, the two sulky synthpop singles she released in 2008, on this third album the New Zealand singer-son... more info

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