Alison Craig
Music and culture writer. Last one at the indie disco.
Wanderlust fodder: the best songs about travelling and adventure
Heading out on an adventure or dreaming of skipping town? The road well travelled has long been a source of songwriting inspiration. From the...
45s of the week: Dream Wife, Black Honey, spill tab and more!
Dream Wife - ‘Leech’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68IvRtRR5g
Power-grabbing gatekeepers and ‘It’s just a bit of banter’ apologists beware: Dream Wife have had just about enough of your shit,...
Jockstrap: Adventures in Sound
Jockstrap: Adventures in Sound
Jockstrap's debut album has been hailed as one of the year's best. We meet the experimental duo, making unpredictable and...
Metronomy – ‘Small World’ review: something a little less wonky from the electro-pop purveyors...
When you’ve built a career on soundtracking sticky dancefloors and sun-drenched good times, how do you negotiate the idea of growing up gracefully? It’s...
45s of the week: Grimes, Warpaint, Confidence Man and more!
Warpaint - ‘Champion’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJznPy_iM4M
Revelling in the spaces between has always been Warpaint’s thing. Since emerging and defining a particular period of early ‘10s alternative guitar...
London’s best grassroots music venues
A great big, flashy stadium show spectacle can be a glorious thing. Are we happy that we live in a world in which Taylor...
Orlando Weeks – ‘Hop Up’ review: another left turn from the former Maccabees frontman
When carving out a solo career after a lengthy tenure in a beloved band, you have a choice to make. You can either take...
Yard Act – ‘The Overload’ review: not just another post-punk band
On paper, there’s a lot that sounds awfully familiar about Yard Act. Four lads from Yorkshire playing guitar music that could largely be described...
Penelope Isles – ‘Which Way To Happy’ review: an album’s album from the Brighton...
In today’s playlist culture, where the consumption of music is more like a buffet than a sit-down meal – a little from over here,...
45s of the week: Wet Leg, Martha Skye Murphy, Years & Years and more!
Wet Leg - ‘Wet Dream’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c
If there’s one thing we like more than a boundlessly exciting, ever-so-slightly Elastica-y track with a giddy, chant-along chorus, it’s...