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NIKI: “For the first time, I feel like I’m finally awake” 

Ahead of the release of third album, 'Buzz', Cordelia Lam meets NIKI to talk growing up, strength in vulnerability and her more freeing new sound.If you were ever to go looking for NIKI, you’d probably find her in the garden. A beautiful oasis in her backyard in Los Angeles, it’s one of the places she loves most. She grows an impressive range of fruits, vegetables and herbs here, from strawberries to bok choy to just about every salad ingredient you can think of. “Lately I’ve been harvesting pas...
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Sarah Kinsley is letting the light in

It was Sarah Kinsley’s birthday in July. Freshly 24, she joins NME from her New York City apartment the morning after her celebrations. “I’m glad we’re talking today!” she laughs. “Every birthday of mine is always so pensive. I’ll just be full of reflections.”
The corner of her apartment she’s dialling in from is lovely. Decorated with ornaments and art, a Monet-hued painting of purples and blues hanging in a golden frame, the space suggests a love of beautiful things, a passion ignited perhaps...
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Karin Ann – 'Through The Telescope' review: intricate, emotional folk-pop with a dark edge

Listening to Karin Ann’s debut album ‘Through the Telescope’, you’d be forgiven for not realising that the Slovakian singer-songwriter is just 21-years-old. There is a knowing darkness to this music, which brims with observations earned through experience and the mystique of an author with many stories to tell.

“All his skin eaten by worms / Nothing left there / A pile of bones”, Ann sings on ‘Pile of Bones’. For all its macabre imagery – a through line across the album’s 14 tracks – the song i
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