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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Shaad D'Souza, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

Add to playlist: Sarah Meth’s resplendent, intimate songwriting and the week’s best new tracks

Sarah Meth
‘Winking self-subjugation’ … Sarah Meth. Photograph: Molly Boniface

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London-based singer-songwriter Sarah Meth makes eerie, skeletal dream-pop cut through with a self-deprecating, very online sense of humour. A scan of her artist page on any streaming service offers a gratifying biography of an artist slowly but surely chipping away at her style in search of a distinct point of view: the lounge jazz stylings of 2020’s Dead End World give way to piquant, post-King Krule bedroom pop on 2022’s Leak Your Own Blues and Billie Eilish-ish pathos on 2023’s Steps EP.

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