“Songs that press against the wound — tender and serrated at once, laced with the dark poetry of girlhood and the theatre of its aftermath.”
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Curatorial notes
Modern Woman emerged from the orbit of London's Windmill Brixton — the south London pub venue that incubated black midi, Squid, Black Country, New Road, and shame — carrying the scene's bent toward the experimental and theatrical while charting its own distinct emotional territory. Where many Windmill graduates embraced mathematical complexity or deadpan wit, Modern Woman gravitates toward...
