Writing

Commissioned essays

Essay for The Man Who Fell to Earth, 50th anniversary 4K collector's edition, StudioCanal, October 2026

Foreword to Karl Bartos' autobiography, The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond, Omnibus Remastered, 2026

"Laying the Blueprint", in The Rolling Stones: Rare and Unseen, photographs by Gered Mankowitz, Hachette, 2024

"Listening for new life in the live archive", liner notes for Andrew Poppy, Ark Hive of a Live, False Walls, 2023

If you're commissioning: I'm open to liner notes, booklet essays and anniversary editions. I write mostly on pop musicology and history, women in music and in production, contemporary art/electronic musics.

The Wire

I have written for The Wire since 2020: interviews, features, artist profiles, columns and reviews.

Invisible Jukebox

Irmin Schmidt — Issue 507, May 2026

Karl Bartos — Issue 485, July 2024

Big Joanie — Issue 465, November 2022

Coby Sey and Tirzah — Issue 463, September 2022

Features

Hilary Woods, "Finding Her Voice" — Issue 503/504, January/February 2026

Clarissa Connelly — Issue 482, April 2024

Profiles and columns

London Clay — Issue 505, March 2026

Miaux — Issue 486, August 2024

Thomas Ignatius — Issue 479/480, January/February 2024

The Fallen Women, "Dead Beat Descendants" — Issue 472, June 2023

Andrew Poppy, "Fluid Dynamics" — Issue 465, November 2022

Faitiche, Unlimited Editions — Issue 464, October 2022

Etudes, Unofficial Channels — Issue 446, April 2021

Online

"Unlimited Editions: Faitiche", The Wire, 2022 Seven tracks from Jan Jelinek's label, chosen and annotated, accompanying the print piece in Issue 464.

"The Sound Worlds of Vangelis", Reverb, 2022

"Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love album was revolutionary - and exploded the myth of the tortured artist", The Conversation, 2024

"Why Kate Bush needs the female gaze", Bloomsbury, 2024

"Aretha Franklin: sublime soul diva whose voice inspired the civil rights movement", The Conversation, 2018

Video essays

Close readings of individual Bowie songs, most adapted from Blackstar Theory. "No Plan" (2026) is the first written independently of the book: Bowie Track Analyses

The emancipating power of samplers & sequencers in the work of Kate Bush during the early-to-mid 80s

Academic

Chapters, articles and book reviews. I am an associate editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. More information can be found on my Kingston profile, as well as Google Scholar.