Album Review: Quicksand Heart by Jenny On Holiday

Jenny Hollingworth is on sabbatical. One half of pop duo Let's Eat Grandma since the age of 13, Quicksand Heart marks a temporary departure from the group, during which she is trading under the fittingly apt alias, Jenny On Holiday. Hollingworth began working on her solo debut during the hazy summer of 2023. Unsure of what she wanted the album to be, the Norwich-born artist penned These Streets I Know.

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You can answer with a deepening seriousness of your own, or you can offer some kind of escape. Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton may have taken a more reflective - even sombre - tone for their last album as Let's Eat Grandma, but Hollingworth's solo debut falls firmly into the take-a-break-from-reality camp: it's the most unashamedly poppy thing either of the women have yet created, together or apart, and it seeks to make a virtue of unobtrusiveness, of resolutely refusing to push the boat out. As Hollingworth (who's taken the non-committal moniker "Jenny on Holiday") puts it, "I'm not really concerned with trying to do stuff that's interesting for the sake of it.

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At only 26, Jenny Hollingworth has already (incredibly) been making music for half her life. Having formed freak-pop project Let's Eat Grandma with Rosa Walton as a young teen, the duo released their striking debut effort, 'I Gemini', aged just 16. Now, with three LEG albums under their joint belt (the most recent being 2022's confronting 'Two Ribbons'), the pair have taken that record's crux - namely, the metamorphosis of their relationship from inseparable teenagers to independent adult entities - to its natural conclusion, each embarking on solo endeavours under new monikers.

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