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Iris recommends: “Rambling Man” by Laura Marling

“Rambling Man” is the third track in Laura Marling’s 2010 album I Speak Because I Can, and was the opening to her show at the Southbank…

3 min readMar 30, 2020

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Iris recommends: “Rambling Man” by Laura Marling

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Iris Recommends: “Not So Bad In LA” by Allie X

In a city that lives while its bright stars die And you start to get old when you turn 25 Where else can you go when you’ve got that drive?

3 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Iris Recommends: “Not So Bad In LA” by Allie X

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Iris Recommends: “Entitlement Crew” by The Hold Steady

More often than not, Katie Darby Mullins’s recommendations on Twitter lead me to new songs that feel like old friends I’ve had at my side…

3 min readJan 1, 2020

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Iris Recommends: “Entitlement Crew” by The Hold Steady

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Iris Recommends: “Rise Up With Fists!!!” by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

“Rise Up With Fists!!!” finds me one June afternoon, on a train from Heathrow airport back to Hammersmith at the end of a work trip to…

2 min readNov 20, 2019

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Iris Recommends: “Rise Up With Fists!!!” by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

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Iris Recommends: “Spiders” by the Editors

I have bad days of all sorts at work. Bad days when “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee” is everything but a joke.

3 min readAug 11, 2019

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Iris Recommends: “Spiders” by the Editors

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Iris Recommends: “The Beigeness” by Kate Tempest

Despite all the years I’ve spent in London, I still approach every book that tells tales of its modern-day life with a certain wonder: the…

2 min readMay 22, 2019

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Iris Recommends: “The Beigeness” by Kate Tempest

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Iris Recommends: “Marching Bands of Manhattan” by Death Cab For Cutie

Ask me where in Italy I grew up, and the answer will be a variation of middle of nowhere, you won’t know it, change of subject (you’ve…

2 min readMar 6, 2019

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Iris Recommends: “Marching Bands of Manhattan” by Death Cab For Cutie

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Iris Recommends: “The Water” by Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling

The water has no rules. It doesn’t care who I am, who I’ve been, who I’m trying to become; it has no place for the clouds in my head.

2 min readOct 23, 2018

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Iris Recommends: “The Water” by Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling

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Federica S.

Federica S.

Italian-born, raised all over the place, wound up in London for better or worse. Also a short story writer, crazy cake lady, and crazy cat lady without a cat.

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