Aziya – ‘Bambi'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TMyk409G4
“I don’t wanna be Bambi,” Londoner Aziya declares on the title track of her new mixtape, which follows her on a journey to self-assurance and reliance. ‘Bambi’, with its steely beats and rush of metallic synths, is reflective...
If you’re working in music journalism (or are even just a fan of it), you’ll know that we’re fast approaching end-of-year list season: the time of year when people attempt to wrangle an array of entirely disparate songs or...
Ethel Cain - 'Punish'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvMmTsZVLo
Teased at live shows throughout 2024, Ethel Cain returns with the recorded version of ‘Punish’, the first single from her forthcoming sophomore record, 'Perverts'. Every inch as haunting as its title suggests, it swells from...
In a Halloween month, as the Phoebe Bridgers adage goes, you can be anything. But whether you’re a witch or a skeleton or the year's most prominent pop-cultural trend, the very act of dressing up as someone else can...
Charli XCX - 'Spring Breakers' ft Kesha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO2_O1L_YY
Four months on from its original drop and the lime green supremacy of ‘Brat’ is still serving at the rate of a top seeded Wimbledon champ. Not content with gathering an entire Met...
“When The Fugees would come to London it was lethal, we’d tell the whole place to come together right now like The Beatles. Wake the town and tell the people, we gon’ do it like we used to.” These...
Jennie – ‘Mantra’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3-CUMERIU&pp=ygUNamVubmllIG1hbnRyYQ%3D%3D
“This that pretty girl mantra, she’s that stunna, make you wanna swing both ways,” Jennie declares confidently on ‘Mantra’, her first track to be released since setting up her own label OddAtelier. The BLACKPINK singer and rapper...
Does it get much better than a stadium college show? At the start of a brand new school year at Stanford University, hordes of undergrads (and even younger local listeners) are queuing in blazing 40-degree heat, forming a long,...
Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns - 'Even'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRzsDjp7MA
It’s been a little while coming, but the collaboration between two of indie-pop’s brightest new lights feels every bit as bittersweet as we predicted. Taking measured aim at the double-standards that exist for...
Nearly four decades ago, Janet Jackson burst out of boomboxes and into global consciousness as she belted out the lyric, "I ain't your baby, I'm Janet—Miss Jackson if you're nasty." Over synth-laden R&B and New Jack Swing, she cemented...