Nymph

Twenty years ago, Paris Hilton was the stiletto-heeled embodiment of the zeitgeist. With a chihuahua called Diamond Baby kennelled in her designer handbag, this nepotistic partygoer juggled five mobile phones while cantering across continents to sell branded merchandise to the fans she smarmily addresses as “my Little Hiltons”. Now, in her early 40s, she has published a memoir, which for ephemeral, unreflective celebrities like her is usually a way of fending off imminent obsolescence.The book – ventriloquised by Joni…

With her soft, almost-whispered falsetto floating over low-frequency beats, London-based Blane Muise, AKA Shygirl, has become a sensuous and pervasive force in UK club music over the past five years. Regularly collaborating with experimental producers such as Arca and the late Sophie, Muise has established herself as the perfect vocalist to slip between the melodic cracks of their fractal sound design. On 2020’s Slime, for instance, she sing-raps with a skittering percussiveness over Sophie’s sparse basslines, while…