Florence + The Machine – ‘Everybody Scream’
Marking the band’s first release in over two years, the title track from Florence + The Machine’s long-awaited sixth album has been unveiled. Complete with Viking-style chanting, primal wails, and choral harmonies, the...
The turquoise castle that towers over Reading’s main stage could have been plucked from a Disney film, but there’s nothing saccharine about the figure who emerges from it. Dressed in black and purple lace, horns crowning her head, Chappell...
Despite going against the pop zeitgeist with her jazz fusions, Laufey has gained rapid mainstream traction. In just five years since the release of her debut single, the Icelandic-born, American-raised musician has embarked on a world tour, scored a...
Thanks to the reunion of a certain band from Manchester, 2025 has seen the transition from Brat Summer to Britpop Summer. The season may soon be drawing to a close, but the music's 30-year-strong staying power doesn't have to....
It's time for Reading and Leeds 2025, the annual "I've got my exam results and I'm going to celebrate/commiserate" rite of passage. While the dual-location weekender still has a lot of room for improvement towards gender equality, we’ve picked...
When Wolf Alice returned with their roaring new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ back in May, it was clear the North London quartet meant business. “Look at me trying to play it hard / I'm so sick and tired of...
Olivia Dean – 'Man I Need'
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Olivia Dean's smooth, soulful vocals are layered over an '80s rhythm in this easy-listening yet danceable track. Dean is rapidly cementing herself among the main pop girls of the moment, with a stronghold of...
Ethel Cain has always possessed a preternatural gift to make her songs feel deeply lived in. With her debut album ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, the Southern gothic-pop outsider – real name Hayden Silas Anhedönia – crafted an expansive, open road epic...
2024 had the world falling at Chappell Roan’s feet. Her breakout hit ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ was everywhere – from TikTok feeds to supermarket speakers – while the slow-burn triumph of debut album 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest...
The opening of Reneé Rapp’s second studio album 'Bite Me' is a middle-finger-raising, rabble-rousing anthem. The aptly titled ‘Leave Me Alone’ sees Rapp assert right out the gate: "I'm a real bad girl but a real good kisser" before...