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Moths and Giraffes
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An independent music review website with a passion for all music styles. Tweets by Teri, pronouns tbd. https://linktr.ee/mothsandgiraffes
M&G turned 5 this year! We've written a few longer pieces, and here is an article distilling some of those into bitesize reads, going all the way back to 2020. We highlight Greta Isaac, Catherine Ireton, Chandeen, The Shoe and Cassandra Jenkins! ❤️🦋🦒

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M&G At 5 - Passion Projects — Moths and Giraffes
At Moths and Giraffes, we’re celebrating five years since we published our first article in January 2020! The seeds of this website began with a concert journal in May 2011 and by 2016 I was beginning...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Fairly sure we're receiving AI press releases now and they read like a person didn't write it
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Listening to this and wanting to cry, give me budget throwback wall of sound all day long.

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They Don’t Know
YouTube video by Kirsty MacColl - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Love this ❤️ Would love to do a career retrospective piece on Katie Melua with an interview to match one day 🥲
Last week at Ronnie Scott's was more of a gathering than a concert, just 200 of us, so we kept it secret. Just me, the band, our close circles, a few club members and a few of you who got the heads-up by email.

📸 Violeta Reveilleau
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Have you listened to radio player
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Fitness Universe proudly welcomes its first member - @pacingmusic.bsky.social. In Katie's application, we discuss her previous gym - PL*NET F*TNESS, her internship at District, fellow gym buddies, advertising and why she hates interns. More below!

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Pacing - F*tness Application — Moths and Giraffes
1. Thanks for coming down in person to fill in your application for Moths and Giraffes: A Fitness Universe. I notice you've had some issues in the past with PL*NET F*TNESS, is that what brings you to ...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Apologies to everyone waiting for a review, unfortunately we are a gym now. Applications open tomorrow but you'll never have to cancel your membership in person! 💪🦋🦒🏋️🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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M&G is one of my favorite places to read about music. There is so much care and dedication, always. Thank you for having me!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy Halloween. Don't look into the light.

We chat to Salt Lake City artist @brosaleigh.bsky.social about their new single 'Radio Player', in part inspired by the 1982 film 'Poltergeist'. A gooey, electronic trip into memory is not without incident...

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Josaleigh Pollett: Confronting The Static — Moths and Giraffes
Roll the dial on your old radio, between the stations, you’re always much closer to static than you think. How easy it is to dip out of reality and fall headfirst into the static. And what about the T...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
‘If you wanna be a billionaire, you gotta make a million every year, and then do it for a thousand years without spending a dime.’

We chat to Rocky Leon about his single 'Billionaire' which aims to teach you just how massive this kind of wealth is!

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How To Make A Billion, with Rocky Leon — Moths and Giraffes
We hear about the movements of billionaires every day. Their opinions, their political leanings, their social media whims. I’m old enough to remember when billionaires were a rarity. It was an unachie...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There was a time when I was seeing plays in London for £10 a seat. I was seeing people like Jude Law, Judi Dench, David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe and Catherine Tate in starring roles. This was ten years ago. Post-pandemic prices at one of the theatres I used to visit are now £70 for the worst seats.
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We got to write about Maddy Hellstrom's new single 'Sophomore', a meeting of minds, music and romance. This track is influenced by Maddy's love of African soukous, with her rapid guitar performances and dynamic drum layering from producer Christian Medice.

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Maddy Hellstrom: A Sophomore In Life — Moths and Giraffes
Like poets that surmise with their favourite lines, musicians and music nerds alike are guilty of turning to their microcosm of chords, melody and words to describe to someone how they feel. Both type...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Having a panic attack, ama
September 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Someone asked me recently if I use AI to write the pieces on my website. I was so insulted. The very foundation of Moths and Giraffes was built on being sick of seeing lazy write-ups for independent artists.

I will never, ever use AI to write anything you see on my website.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Less podcasts, more music
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In the run-up to Californian duo Left Tracks releasing their new mini-album 'LT2', we took a moment to explore all the gorgeous sounds this 16 minutes of music has to offer. Our Q&A with DI LEO and Sun Kin goes into their improvisational creative process!

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‘We never struggle to create.’ - Left Tracks — Moths and Giraffes
I don’t know about you, but I feel like being on the internet now is synonymous with bad, horrific, or disturbing news items. No, wait! Don’t go! You’re visiting Moths and Giraffes, where the only neg...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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BREAKING: The police have confirmed they won't be charging any of the violent far-right rioters with terrorism because they only do that for grandmas in wheelchairs who hold up signs they don't like ♥️
September 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It's a writing day, which means I've eaten about fifteen kilos of food
September 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Now, let's get back on track.
September 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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case in point
September 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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As far as I'm concerned, bluesky has the juice because Michael Stipe is here hanging out.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM