Charli XCX has always been a Stan girl. From the very beginning, she has placed her Angels front and centre, listening to their advice and doing what she can to be reflexive to their requests. An icon of obtainable...
Florence + The Machine – ‘My Love’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9CNGPy11Jc
If you spent any time during the pandemic longing for a sticky dancefloor, a stranger’s sweat glistening on your arm as you squeezed into the queue for the bar, and the endorphin-rush of...
When Dominic Fike got announced as the latest cast member of HBO’s Euphoria, it was somewhat inevitable that music would be a huge part of the season’s success. Having captured the hearts of an international nation with the viral...
Charli XCX - 'Baby'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggrYaDxyrGM
It’s Charli baby, and the word of the day is S.E.X. Over an unrelenting Chromeo beat, Queen XCX serves choreography and charisma, promising to ‘love you real’ but also ‘fuck you up’ in equal disco measure....
One of the most consistently refreshing things about London singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya, is just how effortlessly she can float between genres, and still be impossible to pin down. This is best demonstrated on her vastly eclectic 2019 debut ‘Miss...
When I was thirteen, Jamal Edwards WAS YouTube. Having launched SBTV in 2006, not even a full year after the platform itself was born, my early online experience was tied tightly to the exploration of his videos, capturing a...
The songs you need to hear this week, reviewed by Charlie Gunn
When you’ve built a career on soundtracking sticky dancefloors and sun-drenched good times, how do you negotiate the idea of growing up gracefully? It’s a question that’s evidently been at the forefront of Joe Mount’s mind and one that...
It has never been easy to be a Kanye West fan. To bring up his name in conversation is to get a visceral reaction; a fellow fan who also believes that he is one of the greatest artistic talents...
Sunflower Bean – ‘Who Put You Up To This?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca2oCbZ--4
“We’re letting go for real,” Julia Cumming sings on the twilight psych groove of ‘Who Put You Up To This?’, the second taste of Sunflower Bean’s upcoming third album ‘Headful Of...