Brazilian Wax #5 By Joe Osborne | 27 January, 2021
January’s a slow month for music at the best of times – and these, most certainly are not those. In the UK, indulging in the self-deceiving ceremony of resolutions and better tomorrows, we hauled ourselves across the line into 2021 in front of Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, and straight into Lockdown Mk III, carrying with us a more fatal strain of the virus. For Brazil, meanwhile, the new year brought a rampant second wave, which has been likened to a medieval plague. In the face the current crisis, exacerbated by Jair Bolsonaro’s incompetent leadership (which has seen Brazil’s vaccination programme drastically fall behind those elsewhere), Brazil’s relative musical dearth this January is both expected and hardly something to bemoan. While quiet, though, between December and the first few weeks of the new year, a handful of impressive releases