When I saw Little Simz on the floor of the Natural History Museum, I knew that this was it. It was the same feeling I felt watching the video for ‘Formation’ for the first time, the same feeling as...
“Fail again. Fail better,” goes the famous Samuel Beckett line, and while he certainly wasn’t referring to the minefield that is being a twenty-first-century pop star, Bebe Rexha favours the same kind of raw, honest imperfection. The Brooklyn artist’s...
Solidarity Not Silence - 'This Is Sisterhood'
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Having spoken out against their abuse at the hands of a male music industry figure in 2016, ‘Solidarity not Silence’ are a supergroup using music to raise the money they need to fight...
Listening to Squid’s first full-length album is like taking a drive through England: lengthy stretches of undulating green, sometimes interrupted by noisy concrete towns and frenzied cities. But bucolic charm is nowhere to be found. On ‘Bright Green Field’...
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...