Lucy Dacus is sat on the sofa in a baseball cap, jeans and a tee. It's been a funny ol' morning. It's the week before the release of her fourth album, 'Forever Is A Feeling', a record of songs...
Miso Extra, real name Emily, looks cosy when she answers The Forty-Five’s video call – smiley and a bit sleepy, cradling a cup of something warm and soothing. “My brain is fried. Bear with me. My operating is slower...
It’s not that Sabrina Teitelbaum ever intentionally set out to put a razor-sharp scalpel to the pitfalls and perversions of modern dating on her debut self-titled outing as Blondshell. But, as she reflects, sipping on a mint tea a...
26-year-old Wallice Watanabe has been waiting for this moment for quite some time. First honing her songwriting skills as a kid, releasing a debut album has always been the goal. And now it's finally here: 'The Jester' marks her...
From Wet Leg to The Last Dinner Party, the most successful breakout artists of the last couple of years have been the ones who’ve seemingly arrived fully formed; who’ve done the work behind the scenes, writing and rewriting, plotting...
As the first UK artist to sign to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label, Manchester-based jasmine.4.t is already keeping top tier company; with her imminent debut album – this month’s raw and resilient ‘You Are The Morning’ – produced not...
“When I started thinking about writing my own stuff, I definitely remember being in a tourbus and Googling, ‘How old was Gwen Stefani?’ ‘How old was Annie Lennox?’,” recalls Lauren Mayberry. “I was worried at the age of 35...
DOECHII
With her first full-length project out in the world, Doechii is being talked about in the same breath as some of the world's greatest rappers. We meet the Floridian 'Swamp Princess' in London on the cusp of her global...
MICHELLE
MICHELLE are the six-piece New York City collective redefining what it means to be a band. As they release their third record, 'Songs About You Specifically', we get to know the group making some of the year's most mould-breaking...
Dora Jar is one of life's weirdos. For her first-ever UK show, she was wheeled on stage, zipped inside a suitcase full of soil, tumbling out in a grubby heap. At a recent Grammys party, she baffled red-carpet photographers...