'Emotion' by Carly Rae Jepsen is five years old and it has endured because it is the purest most shameless pop album of a decade, inspired by everything pop music has since become too afraid to be. A bold...
As she prepares to release a brand new project, we talk female empowerment, self-belief and south London with Ms Banks.
You have your whole life to write your debut album and so by that logic, releasing your first record should be a pretty exciting moment. What happens, though, when your first full-length body of work coincides with a global...
Even through a Zoom screen, Sinead O’Brien is magnetic. She has the quiet energy of someone with a fast-flowing stream of ideas running through them at all times, thoughtful and considering, with an excited energy for whatever the topic...
Omar Apollo has the musical taste of a much older person—Prince, Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone. So it is no surprise that after a brief Twitter exchange with Bootsy Collins, the 23-year old singer-songwriter got the...
This summer Amelia Meath – the lyric-writing, Buffalo boot wearing, cartwheeling half of Sylvan Esso – turned 32. Of course a party was impossible, so instead she and her bandmate and husband Nick Sanborn got masked up, dipped themselves...
At age 21, Canadian artist Powfu has already firmly grasped the title of one of 2020’s breakout stars, his lo-fi hip-hop tracks hitting over 20 million monthly streams on Spotify. What started out as a bedroom project has become...
Over the past few years, Liverpool rockers The Mysterines have been perfecting their brand of riff-happy, groove-based indie belters, complete with a heavy dollop of punk attitude. They tick all the boxes for a successful rising act: they’ve previously...
Known for their gritty blend of dark synth rock and brooding lyrics, Pvris have a signature sound you can recognise almost anywhere. Littered with paranormal references and intricately metaphysical lyrics, the Massachusetts band have chiselled away at their sound...
A sugaregg is a confectioner’s Fabergé. If you’re lucky enough to hold one, delicately, in your palm, a glance inside its perfect shell will reveal a scene so ornate and timeless, it could be passed down for generations –...