- The relentless Raquel Solier is back and as busy as ever, maybe busier. The drummer for all the cool bands, most recently MOD CON, (but see also Palm Springs, Geoffrey O’Connor and so on), drummer and co-producer on projects with Racerage, Papaphillia and Kuya Neil, oh and working mother, somehow finds time to also be Various Asses and not ever come close to sounding like they're phoning it in. How?

<p><span><span>- I don’t think I have ever quite felt a wait like the five years between <strong>Kendrick Lamar </strong>projects. The Autumn of 2017 feels long past, and, in its dusty wake we finally arrive at the release of Kendrick’s new double-project <em>Mr Morale &amp; the Big Steppers</em>. My own life has changed in eighteen-hundred days and it feels like Kendrick’s has too. Gone is the saviour mentality towards rap and black culture, a burden that the Californian rapper previously seemed eager to put upon his shoulders.