When a band announces their hiatus, you expect the fanbase anguish; caps-locked quote tweets and nostalgia clips of past concerts, reposted with emoji tears. What you maybe don’t expect to see is relief. When news of Brockhampton’s "indefinite hiatus"...
Grae – 'Room In the Desert'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEYQ3WNLDM
Toronto artist, Grae, has drawn inspiration from Cocteau Twins' 'Cherry-coloured Funk' on new single, 'Room In The Desert'. The enigmatic title, which actually had no meaning to Grae at the time of writing, is...
When Julien Baker, Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten, all tweeted ‘Monday’ in unison, it didn’t take a (girl)genius to figure out that something was afoot. For US folks, their luck was in; the announcement quickly revealed itself to...
CMAT - ‘Lonely’
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ASQcWTLlp5BwUosCUZOoe?si=3Yr-cYMhSem10r1QY0gaSw
Over the last couple of isolated years, you might have found yourself searching for companionship in unusual places. CMAT can relate: “Who needs God when I have Robbie Williams? / Who needs boys with these voices in...
New Order, Tolworth Recreation Centre, 12th March 1983
Tolworth Rec. was never exactly a hub for music and culture. It was an unremarkable suburban sports hall in a town notable for little other than a towering office block which was...
When carving out a solo career after a lengthy tenure in a beloved band, you have a choice to make. You can either take the Liam Gallagher route, AKA carry on swaggering down the same path, just without the...
On paper, there’s a lot that sounds awfully familiar about Yard Act. Four lads from Yorkshire playing guitar music that could largely be described as ‘wiry’ with a vocalist fond of a spoken word-style monologue, the quartet seem to...
The frantic swirl of 2001’s Strokes-led New York renaissance brought many things to UK-based indie kids, including but not limited to; a proliferation of actually-quite-painful Converse, musty secondhand shop leather jackets and some pretty intense Velvet Underground related sessions...
Let's Eat Grandma – ‘Happy New Year’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R9qLldd7_U
Back with a topical banger, Norwich wunderkinds Let’s Eat Grandma have kicked-started 2022 by playing Calvin Harris at his own game; big euphoric synths and nostalgic recollection of poignant memories, utilising the occasion...
In his last album ‘After Hours’, and particularly in the unforgettable single ‘Blinding Lights’, The Weeknd gave us all-out 80s nostalgia mixed with forward-thinking pop. ‘Dawn FM’, his fifth studio album, sees the Canadian artist take this a step...