If weather forecasts are anything to go by, Lou Hayter’s debut solo album should land amid some perfectly timed, highly belated summer weather. Not that ‘Private Sunshine’ needs any help. The record operates like a bottle of concentrated sun...
Confession time: I only found out that Bam Bam existed about two months ago while researching for an interview with TJ Miller, co-director of Tina, the fabulous, fascinating and emotionally scouring documentary about Tina Turner, a film which showed...
“In two years, Black Midi’s music will be unrecognisable compared to what it is today,” the London band decreed two years ago. To hold them to their word is unfair, and to hail their second album ‘Cavalcade’ as “unrecognisable”...
We miss Glastonbury. More than sweaty mosh-pits or nightclubs or karaoke, we long for five days spent in a field, surrounded by happy people and endless, wonderful music. We miss traipsing around its weird corners at 3AM and stumbling...
I haven’t always liked being Jenessa. The only brown girl in my primary school class, it marked me out as different; somehow more ‘exotic’ than the Sophies and Katies and Elizabeths that were popular in my suburban town. Nobody...
Now, I can’t be certain. But I think Olivia Rodrigo might have been dumped.
For her debut LP, ‘Sour’, the 18-year-old High School Musical alumni, has created a break-up album to soundtrack teenage tears the world over. And, we suspect,...
A band who begin their new record with a love song to donuts are probably doing things right. From sweet treats to karaage (fried chicken) and salted rice balls, Chai have food on the brain – even more so...
Audrey Nuna describes ‘a liquid breakfast’ as her journal from the past eighteen months – but it’s no dull pandemic diary. “There’s a lot of different sounds and sides of myself I’ve captured and collected over the months I...
Billie Marten was just 17 when she released her debut album, ‘Writing Of Blues And Yellows’ in 2016. Growing up in rural Yorkshire, the flora and fauna of the natural world framed much of her early writing. In fact,...
Of all the niche crossover genres, the sweetly savage sound of cowpunk has my heart in the tightest grip. Running parallel to the 1980s’ rockabilly revival, it’s a twanging, banging fusion of country music and punk rock, as sleazy...