From outright lifts to subtle homages, samples have always been the bedrock of hip-hop but they’ve also been utilised throughout all forms of popular music for decades (what are the twelve-bar blues if not the original sample?) Hearing a...
Hyperpop has always been underpinned by the radical idea that nothing actually matters – and no artist embodies that in its totality like Dylan Brady. While he is known best in recent years as one of the two genre-mutilating...
When homegrown guitar hero in the making, Aziya, name-dropped Fanny’s June Millington in a recent interview, it was all we could do not to squawk with glee. 51 years since Fanny’s self-titled debut album and their pioneering classic rock...
Dodie Clark has her own shade of yellow. ‘Dodie yellow’ – official hex code #fef65b – began as the colour of a dress the 24-year-old English singer-songwriter and YouTuber wore in a 2016 vlog, and championed by viewers, quickly...
The first cut is the deepest, as Cat Stevens once sang, which might explain why ‘Young Heart’, written after Birdy’s first major break-up, is five years in the making and nearly an hour long.
In early studio sessions, the heartache...
How much could we all just do with a really good gig? With most of us having not experienced IRL live music since well over a year ago, it’s no surprise that the attempts to save our summer are...
Mike Kerr shakes off the shingle from his bass on Royal Blood’s third offering ‘Typhoons’, which finds the rock band chasing a cleaner, groovier sound via added synth and falsetto. But the Brighton duo are not Daft Punk reincarnate:...
As Girl In Red journeys closer to indie-pop greatness, it’s difficult not to relish in the artist’s distinguished tone as a breakout aesthete. Following the likes of Billie Eilish and Post Malone, Marie Ulven was plucked from the height...
BILLIE EILISH – ‘YOUR POWER’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeWc3zh01g
She's back! Taken from Billie Eilish’s forthcoming album, ‘Happier Than Ever’, ‘Your Power’ sees the megastar portray the power dynamics in relationships when the scales are tipped, the visuals for the single seeing Eilish symbolise...
Julia Michaels pulls the strings of pop. Since her teens she’s written songs for a boundless litany of artists: Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, even Linkin Park. In 2017, she made the leap from songwriter...