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Friday, 16 Apr 2021 06:10 AM MYT The three-piece British band have been through the grinder since the rapid success of their electropop debut ‘If You Wait’ in 2013 launched them into a breakneck schedule of writing, releasing and touring. — ETX Studio pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. LONDON, April 16 — With Britain slowly emerging from lockdown, it’s a fitting moment for an upbeat new album from London Grammar, with singer Hannah Reid charting her own journey out of a dark period in her life. The three-piece British band have bee...

London Grammar are on course to secure their second number one album with Californian Soil. The Nottingham-formed trio, Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman and Dominic “Dot” Major, are outselling the rest of the top five combined, according to the Official Charts Company’s mid-week update. If the album, which explores themes of feminism and fame, ends the week at number one it will follow in the footsteps of 2017’s chart-topping Truth Is A Beautiful Thing. AJ Tracey (Isabel Infantes/PA) The group’s debut, If You Wait, reached number two in 2013. Filling out the top five are Brit-nominated rapp...

London Grammar: Californian Soil review Pop One downside of being the only female in a renowned indie band is the amount of preconceptions, stereotypes and unfair assumptions to dispel before the music is even considered.  Hannah Reid discovered this quite early in London Grammar’s career. Around the time of the trio’s 2013 debut If You Wait, she found herself at the centre of a Twitterstorm when the official BBC Radio 1 account, apropos of nothing, tweeted: “We all think that the girl from @londongrammar is fit. Let us know if you agree.” Up until now, Reid hasn’t addressed the ma...

Open share drawer The UK electronic-pop trio’s third album draws on a renewed sense of extroversion and energy, which can’t always overcome its lyrical and production missteps. Featured Tracks: “America” — London GrammarVia SoundCloud London Grammar never made a lot of noise. Even as singer Hannah Reid’s throaty alto garnered comparisons to Florence Welch, she and bandmates Dot Major and Dan Rothman rarely offered anything more surprising than the occasional end-of-song breakbeat. The huge proportions of Adele producers Greg Kurstin and Paul Epworth left 2017�...

London Grammar established themselves as both ethereal indie darlings and mainstream pop royalty. It’s a duality that’s seen the trio equally at home on UK festival stages, as they were the stereos of Balearic beach bars. Indeed, with such success one might assume comes a certain level of respect. For frontwoman Hannah Reid however, it came with being undervalued by the wider industry, and the assumption that ‘the boys’ must deal with everything. 'Californian Soil', the band’s third album, is a direct response to this. Where previously Reid had taken centre stage as the band’s voc...