ABBE MAY Fruit (Source Music) Here are some truths: Abbe May is indomitable but the Apple algorithm is not infallible. Load this album into iTunes and it tells you that these songs – the result of a good few years of physical/emotional/mental upheaval and recovery, including a baby born into the wider family – are of “unknown genre”. Unknown? I don’t think so. Even if you had missed the stylistic movement in Abbe May’s two previous, ground-shifting albums - some leap years fr

With a new single built from slowed R&B and overheated imaginations, Abbe May may be teasing out a new album but she's got a plan. She's long had a plan. Wind Back Wednesday goes back to 2013 to see that plan being formed. Abbe May is striding through the streets of Surry Hills one chilly Friday evening, her voice rising over the rumble and screech of patrons spilling out of pubs and restaurants. We’re talking new love (or talking about not talking new love) on the way to tal

The best songs of the year? Quite possibly. The songs I played the most, sang the most, enjoyed the most this year? Definitely. Many of them come from collections which will appear on the list of the best/favourite albums of the year. Not surprisingly. All of them exist independently though. Cracking power plays, strong final statements, quite beautiful and sad moments, slinky sensuous grooves and not one sign of Fergie, Meghan Trainor or Shannon Bloody Noll. Instead there’s