When a group has you up at 8 am, light stick in hand, parked in front of your laptop ready to stream their first-ever headline show, you know you’ve fully caught the K-Pop bug. But aespa aren’t just any...
DYLAN - 'Every Heart But Mine'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf2MwHlwogg
We’re living in an era where female empowerment is at an all-time high and the charts are dominated with badass solo performers who are championing their contemporaries; practising the art of collaboration instead of...
It's not just hairy metal dudes that can let rip in songs. The raw, outpouring of emotion that is the simple scream has long been used as a crescendo in pack-a-punch tracks that span genres and moods. Here we...
Gracie Abrams spends the first three minutes of her debut album, ‘Good Riddance’, apologising. “I was so negligent / I feel terrible about how I handled it”, she sings on album opener, ‘Best’.
It’s a complicated apology – regretful and...
When you think of K-pop record breakers, BTS or BlackPink will probably spring to mind; two cultural behemoths that have infiltrated their world with their polished dance breaks and uplifting lyrics. These bands might be considered ambassadors of the...
JANELLE MONÁE – ‘FLOAT’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xf28VXMB2w
The new era from multi-talented actor and singer, Janelle Monáe, has arrived and a trumpeting horn procession lines their comeback parade. In collaboration with Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, ‘Float’ is a swaggering hype track about...
In the opening moments of Caroline Polachek’s new album, ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ – the second under her real name, and seventh overall – the alt-pop singer wails in vocal intervals for 25 seconds. Soaring atop...
Mae Stephens – ‘If We Ever Broke Up’
https://open.spotify.com/track/6maTPqynTmrkWIralgGaoP
There are TikTok viral moments and then there’s Mae Stephens’ TikTok viral moment. Ever since the start of the year, her debut single ‘If We Ever Broke Up’ has been dominating the...
For the prodigal return of Paramore, who had been on hiatus since 2017’s Grammy-nominated ‘After Laughter’, Hayley Williams re-dyed her hair that trademark red. The blonde era was a long one, encompassing ‘After Laughter’ and Williams’ solo album ‘Petals...
Humble readers, I come to you as a sad Beyoncé fan. Like seemingly half of the UK’s entire population, I found myself in the online queue for the 'Renaissance' tour this week, rapidly losing the will to gig. I...