From playing the double bass as a child to working with long-time friend and producer Dom Porter, Essex-born Mercy’s Cartel has grown up expressing herself through her music. Her songs – fresh R&B confessionals and witty, playful takes on modern...
Fears wears her heart on her sleeve. You can tell that just by listening to her emotive, ethereal music, which combines haunting vocals and acoustic samples with reflective electronics. Every single track on her debut artist album ‘Oíche’ is...
Tell you what, kids – we love CMAT. Ever since we heard the infectious 'I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby', complete with line "Always the cowboy, never the cow/ I hate the way my life turned out", we knew...
Zara Larsson is snuggled comfortably in the corner of her spacious couch to chat about her upcoming second album 'Poster Girl'. “I feel ready and finished.” She pauses and laughs, “Well, no, that’s not true, I definitely could have...
Miss Grit takes her time. You can hear it in her lingering guitar solos; the sprawling outro of ‘Blonde’, the mid-point on her new EP 'Impostor', which warps like a well-loved film reel. This space isn’t the result of...
At 13, Madison Beer was discovered by Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun on YouTube, singing Etta James covers. It should have been a fairytale story for the social media age; gaining hundreds of thousands of followers, walking...
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 began writing music as Puma Blue as a means of staying occupied during those sleepless...
Think back over the most gripping shows of the last year, and they all have one distinctive quality in common – a standout soundtrack. From the eclectic, new artist-led music woven through Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You to...
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Griff takes bedroom pop to a new level. The singer-songwriter-producer-tailor is part of a generation of young musicians shaking up the charts. Rhian Daly talks to the Taylor Swift-approved artist about her journey so far.
“It seems like things are...
It’s 2010. EDM is on the brink of exploding and America will soon rediscover its love for dance music. Skrillex’s ‘Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites’ is driving teenagers wild and driving their parents mad. Soon after, Steve Aoki, Afrojack,...