In a period littered with music stories that could easily have been fever dreams, none were met with such a heavy air of scepticism as the announcement that ABBA were reuniting after 40 years for a digital concert. They...
MUNA – 'Home By Now'
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On 'Home By Now' MUNA are questioning their decisions. The eighties-infused synth-pop banger from the LA trio, sees them having doubts about ending a relationship. It's another heart-breaking party song to add to their already...
You don’t see too many pop careers like Sky Ferreira’s. With her grungy aesthetic and a background in modelling, Ferreira was perhaps one of the truest examples of "indie sleaze", blending the narcotic glamour of Lana Del Rey, the...
Paul McCartney has no business trying this hard. Nearly five decades into the most storied career in pop music, and just four weeks shy of his 80th birthday, McCartney is still packing stadiums around the world with fans who...
Emo is, notoriously, a tricky thing to define. It spans genres, cultures, and hundreds of songs over 35 years. When putting together this list of 45 of the best emo songs, we’ve stuck to a couple of simple rules:...
“Men Are Trash”, Harry Styles proclaimed on stage at this year’s Coachella before debuting a new song.
“Boyfriends, they think you're so easy/ They take you for granted”, crooned Styles over Laurel Canyon acoustic guitar on ‘Boyfriends’. It was...
Breakups can feel like a sledgehammer to the heart. Lykke Li’s fifth album ‘EYEYE’ captures that feeling, evoking neon taxi rides in late-stage heartbreak. It’s a return to romantic obsession and melodrama, but, as her most conceptually ambitious album...
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how we equate intelligence with morality. When somebody is wrong – for example, expressing racist or homophobic views – we will often think that it is because they're uneducated, or thoughtless and...
“Will I always be the words I wrote when I was 17?” mxmtoon – aka now-21-year-old singer-songwriter Maia – asks on the chiming, ‘90s alt-pop of ‘victim of nostalgia’. It’s a question that’s integral to the journey of her second album...
The story of Warpaint’s return nearly six years on from their third album ‘Heads Up’ (2016) is one of them being torn together. For the first time in the LA band’s history, Emily Kokal (guitar, vocals), Theresa Wayman (guitar,...