Little Simz might just be Britain's most affecting wordsmith, as she proves on second album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert'. The record opens with actual fanfare and for just cause, for what's about to unfold over the next 19...
"I don't get out much", says Damon Albarn, atop End of the Road festival's Woods stage on its first day proper. "But when I do, I like to have a good time". Clad in a 90s Fred Pezza shirt,...
In amongst the carefully curated reversions on ‘Cuntry Covers Vol. 1’, the dreamy, western-indebted debut EP from Bria – Bria Salmena and Duncan Hay Jennings from Orville Peck's touring band and Toronto punks FRIGS – is an elegant take...
Whether it’s the effects of lockdown or simply the realities of entering my late twenties, I cannot move for babies. They’re on my social media, in my immediate friend and family circles, bringing me more and more mushy feelings...
Fifty years ago Judee Sill released her gorgeous debut album. At just over half an hour long, the 11 tracks that make up ‘Judee Sill’ can still skewer your day with their heartworn folksiness, dreamy symphonic roots and shimmering,...
“If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore / you don't save yourself for marriage, you're a whore…ible person,” Kacey Musgraves sang in 2013 on ‘Follow Your Arrow’, the penultimate track of her debut album ‘Same Trailer Different...
Halsey’s growth has been one of modern pop’s most thrilling rides. In 2015, they released their debut album, which shot them immediately into lofty festival spots and to the upper echelons of the charts. Instead of lean into the...
Big Red Machine plough some extremely fertile fields. The founding members alone – Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner – are noblemen of twenty-first-century indie folk, and as Big Red Machine, they map out that terrain...
In a week when we’ve lost an all-time iconic London musician, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, it feels right to talk about a band steeped in London’s musical legacy. Of course, Chubby and the Gang – formed in west...
Though TikTok might have you believing otherwise, real visionary popstars don’t come around too often. You know the ones; where songs are vessels for a wider social mood, where every photoshoot and outfit change and video release is a...