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On a Sunday night in February, three female-fronted rock bands teamed up at Nottingham’s Rock City to provide an evening of live music and entertainment that was truly a celebration of women within the rock genre. Gemma Cockrell reviews.
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Answering the video call a few hours into the release day of second album ‘Who Am I?’,
Pale Waves singer
Heather Baron-Gracie was ecstatic with multiple interviews and the viewing of a huge billboard of the band in West London. But who can blame her? Since their debut album, ‘My Mind Makes Noise’, was released in 2018, they have been making waves as a band known for their honesty, clever lyricism and loveable personalities. More importantly, they are known for creating music that resonates. I think that s one of the best things about this career, she explains when talking about the fans feeling represented through their music. You sit in a room and have these ideas for songs, or you channel from your personal experiences, and then you create them and bring them into this world. It s about how they impact people s lives for the better - usually - and it creates an understanding fo
Pale Waves - Who Am I? (Album Review) Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Written by Huw Baines
The desire to dress up mainstream pop music as something different something more dangerous or provocative has been around since the penny dropped that rebellion shifted units. Pale Waves’ 2018 debut ‘My Mind Makes Noises’ ran headlong into this dynamic and faltered: for all the eyeliner and goth stylings the LP fizzled once its anodyne hooks failed to scratch beneath the surface.
Its successor is more comfortable in its surroundings. ‘Who Am I?’ ditches the Sisters of Mercy cosplay in favour of inhabiting the slick pop-rock of the late 1990s that set the table for Avril Lavigne’s blockbuster crossover success. Here Pale Waves find more room to manoeuvre, favouring the crunch of their guitars to add heft to choruses that skew anthemic. But there’s still one crucial thing missing.