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- Summary: Let's Eat Grandma's Jenny Hollingworth releases her debut full-length solo album as Jenny On Holiday.
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- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jan 7, 2026The album doesn’t make for a grand departure from Let’s Eat Grandma’s sound, though fans of the band will have no problem hearing about what Hollingworth got up to on her holiday.
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Jan 9, 2026The record peaks with the archetypally perfect powerpop number Appetite and the genre-bending Do You Still Believe in Me? in which Hollingworth patchworks together breakbeats, vertiginously swooping vocals, squealing hair metal bombast and shoegazey dissonance, reminding us of her singular powers in the process.
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Jan 15, 2026For anyone who’d wished that M83 hadn’t covered the hearts on their sleeves with so much varnish or that Grimes hadn’t ditched the experimentation, you’re going to get a lot of spins out of Jenny on Holiday’s Quicksand Heart in 2026.
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Jan 7, 2026For some, the poise and polish of ‘Quicksand Heart’ may be cause for slight lament - the unabashed weirdness of Let’s Eat Grandma was central to their offbeat charm, after all. But as an exercise in self-actualisation, Jenny On Holiday’s solo debut is indeed a revitalising break.
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Jan 12, 2026The second half of the album lacks the big hooks or earworms—so essential to that winning 80’s formula—that make the first half so compelling. But at its best, Quicksand Heart is a winning example of pure pop pleasure that knows to straddle the line between heartbreak and hope.
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UncutJan 7, 2026Unabashedly emphatic songs that nod to Robyn (notably on skyscraping opener "Good Intentions"), Cyndi Lauper ("Every Ounce Of Me") and Kate Bush ("Appetite"), though the settings are largely those of a US mainstream, '90s grunge-pop band. They flatten the resonance of Hollingworth's lyrics. [Feb 2026, p.35]
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Jan 14, 2026Too much of Quicksand Heart feels rushed, or perhaps consciously unambitious, eschewing bold creative strokes in favour of the kind of inoffensive consistency you might put on at a cheese and wine night to set the mood. Its best songs are worth a relisten; taken as a whole, though, it’s something of a disappointment.