Gemma Samways
Journalist for the likes of Evening Standard, Crack, Loud and Quiet, The Face, i-D
COBRAH: “The sound of rubber and chains is very much translated into the music”
Goth, cheerleader, dominatrix: you could say COBRAH has always had a thing for uniforms.
“My mom really wasn’t into the whole goth thing,” grins the...
Raheaven: “You either relate or you don’t, and if you can’t relate then you’re...
Raheaven might be laughing contemplating any backlash her lyrical candour could provoke, but really she’s only semi-joking. Blame it on her Leo blood or...
CREAMS: “Tbilisi is gloomy and super noisy, and I love it”
“Making music for moderately melancholic people” is how Natia Chichinadze bills her purpose as CREAMS, over on Instagram. As snappy, six-word bios go, it...
Puma Blue: “I’ve always been terrified of being ‘flavour of the month”
Jacob Allen has long been attuned to the rhythms of restless nights. A chronic insomniac since the age of 10, the Croydon-raised singer-songwriter only...
Goat Girl: “We’re not afraid to be lavish or indulgent anymore”
While it required a lot of resilience for any of us to make it through 2020, Goat Girl were being forced to dig deep...
Claud: “I feel love really intensely”
Claud Mintz is a life-long romantic. Growing up in Chicago, they recall pining for a much older girl at school, and taking up songwriting...
The Future Five – Lava La Rue: “I haven’t even shown half of my...
LAVA LA RUE
As a founding member of NiNE8, the inclusive London creative collective, and as a solo artist in her own right, Lava La...
Shame: “Young people have it fucking hard these days”
It might be named after the precise shade of pink proven by psychologists to reduce violent or aggressive behaviour, but Shame’s second studio album...
Jockstrap: “We weren’t allowed to release our video because it had Disney porn in...
While nothing could ever make sense of the disorientating weirdness of these times, Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye captured the spirit of it in...
Saweetie: “When you’re a female artist, you’re constantly critiqued”
In a year where in-person fan interactions have been severely limited, only the artists with a strong social media game have truly thrived. Step...