Hey Music Mag - Issue 3 - December 2018
Hey you! Feast your eyes on the December issue of Hey Mag. It’s crammed with music news and features from around the world. British singer-songwriter Jess Glynne reveals the truth about fame, Icelandic neo classical genius Olafur Arnalds exudes glacial cool, UAE-based band The Boxtones return to their rock roots, and we get spaced out with Japanese hip-hop producer Shin-Ski. Discover five emerging Chicago acts you need on your radar and how to bag your band a gig. And don’t miss our gift guide for music junkies – full of great present ideas for the audiophile in your life. Get stuck in!
Hey you!
Feast your eyes on the December issue of Hey Mag.
It’s crammed with music news and features from around the world.
British singer-songwriter Jess Glynne reveals the truth about fame, Icelandic neo classical genius Olafur Arnalds exudes glacial cool, UAE-based band The Boxtones return to their rock roots, and we get spaced out with Japanese hip-hop producer Shin-Ski. Discover five emerging Chicago acts you need on your radar and how to bag your band a gig.
And don’t miss our gift guide for music junkies – full of great present ideas for the audiophile in your life.
Get stuck in!
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thing or another. It’s okay to cry and feel low<br />
and it’s okay to feel happy and feel strong<br />
and empowered. Each song represents a<br />
different emotion.”<br />
Faced with penning the new album<br />
following the phenomenal success of her<br />
debut longplayer, Glynne admits to trying<br />
“lots of different things” to get in the creative<br />
zone and ward off any hints of Difficult<br />
Second Album Syndrome. “I’m not going to<br />
lie, there’s always going to be pressure,” she<br />
says, “but you have to disconnect yourself<br />
from it all and immerse yourself in the music.<br />
It’s so easy to get caught up in the hype.<br />
It’s better to focus on your music and make<br />
sure you love it than worry if someone else is<br />
going to like it.<br />
“I just want to make music<br />
that feels amazing and<br />
sounds like an honest<br />
piece of material”<br />
both breaking comfortably into the Top 10.<br />
“I’ll be honest and say that it’s broken<br />
me but it’s also made me,” says the North<br />
Londoner of her new album. Going someway<br />
to explaining its title, she adds: “The album<br />
is like a journey of emotions from strong to<br />
insecure to powerful to powerless. It’s okay<br />
to not always have an answer, it’s okay to<br />
live in the middle and not have to be one<br />
Words_Tiffany Hart/The Interview People Photo_Mario Cinquetti<br />
“I went to America and wrote loads of<br />
amazing songs but I didn’t feel content with it.<br />
Both the label and I felt it wasn’t the best me.”<br />
Eventually, most of the album was recorded<br />
in the UK after Glynne moved to a house in<br />
Sussex with a crew of 10 people.<br />
“It wasn’t a studio. We just set up in all<br />
the rooms there and had the most free<br />
experience. I felt I had to not be under any<br />
pressure or be in a space that felt restricted<br />
or felt clinical. I wanted everyone to come to<br />
one place, eat good food, create when they<br />
wanted to create, be leisurely when they<br />
wanted to be and make music for what it is,<br />
rather than thinking about making a hit or a<br />
smash or whatever anyone likes to call it.<br />
“That’s not how I write music. I don’t think,<br />
‘This needs to be a No.1’. This has to be<br />
Top 10’. I just want to make music that feels<br />
amazing and sounds like an honest piece<br />
of material.”<br />
After signing with Atlantic Records, Jess<br />
first came to prominence in 2014 as a<br />
featured artist on Clean Bandit’s Rather Be<br />
and Route 94’s My Love, both of which went<br />
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