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Greg Morton: At age 16, Greg Morton got first job at a local department store, as a P.A. announcer. That same voice that grabbed the attention of shoppers, recently wowed judges, on the season 14 premier of
The Filipino-born, London-raised songwriter Beatrice Laus is just 20, and she grabs at the pre-Britpop signifiers of Nineties indie rock – fuzzy guitar, soft, blurred vocals and the occasional leap into messy volume – with the fervency of someone for whom the sound is still exhilaratingly new on her debut album. On Worth It, the mix of energetic riffing and her sweet, fragile singing voice recall key women in early Nineties alternative music such as Tanya Donnelly of Belly, or occasional Lemonhead Juliana Hatfield. Those who know her from her early acoustic sketch Coffee will notice a ret...