Tinashe Is Her Own Kind Of Popstar
Tinashe strikes us as exactly the sort of artist our listeners gravitate towards, someone who's clearly thought deeply about her aesthetic choices and isn't content just showing up and going through the motions. There's something refreshingly independent about an approach like that in pop music, where the pressure to fit a mould can be absolutely crushing. The fact that she's engaging with visual art and cultural history on this level suggests there's real substance behind the music, and that's the kind of artist we reckon deserves your attention on Cledvibes Radio.
From Stereogum: Tinashe has an eye for detail. This becomes clear a few minutes after she arrives at the airy Bishop Gallery in Brooklyn, wearing a Denim Tears shirt aptly emblazoned with a photo of New York art world icons Lee Radziwill and Andre Leon Talley. Surveying the exhibit, a collection of native son Jean-Michel Basquiat’s early work, she pauses in front of a handwritten page from an abandoned screenplay…