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1 week agoJenny on Holiday: Quicksand Heart
Jenny Hollingworth's solo debut Quicksand Heart channels '80s synth-pop and childlike joy, transforming personal grief into exuberant, nostalgic, power-pop songs.
Over the past decade, 27-year-old Jenny Hollingworth's musical output has become steadily less strange. As half of Let's Eat Grandma, the Norwich native started out making freaky synth-folk the arch syrupiness of which chimed with the then-nascent hyperpop scene: I, Gemini, the duo's 2016 debut, was outsiderish juvenilia of the most thrilling variety. For its follow-up, I'm All Ears, Hollingworth and her bandmate, Rosa Walton, sharpened their songwriting skills while holding tight to their eccentricities; the result was an album of sensational futurist pop.