When I started my year by pressing play on Bombay Bicycle Club’s ‘Everything Else Has Gone Wrong’, I didn’t necessarily expect to be listening to a prophecy. But here we are 11 months later, and can safely decree that...
Julia Jacklin – ‘baby jesus is nobody's baby now’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byB2r0g014E
There have been some truly wild Christmas songs released this week, from Mariah Carey’s extremely high-octane collaboration with Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson, ‘Oh Santa!’, to Liam Payne yet again making...
If you ask a friend what they’re up to and they reply “not much going on at the moment”, you must not – under any circumstances – believe them. They have run away to the woods to collaborate with...
“I kind of like the distance,” admits Nilüfer Yanya on ‘Crash’, the first single from her new EP ‘Feeling Lucky?’. She penned the track before the pandemic, but it could easily refer to Yanya’s take on this year –...
What a year. It's been an interesting task ranking the year's best songs in an annum so devoid of normality. So often, a song is loved for the memories it's attached to: the many nights out where you wait...
How much music have you listened to this year? Without festivals, commuting and clubs, the shift in our daily, monthly or annual routines has meant new things – podcasts to help us sleep, more Netflix than we'd care to...
You know how some songs sound like Christmas songs, but aren’t? ‘Now Is The Time’, the third album from LA folk-ish band Lavender Diamond, fits that category. It’s the kind of record you’d put on at a December gathering...
Ten seconds in to ‘Nightmare Vacation’, Rico Nasty spits, “I don't write reviews 'cause that's something y'all do,” a blunt reminder – or warning – that she no longer cares what anybody thinks. Her major label debut sees Nasty...
With his Rocky Horror androgyny, expressive face and streaky hair, Yungblud often resembles the love-child of Gerard Way and Caitlin Moran. Live, he leaves it all on stage just like Jagger, Freddie, or Madonna, and when describing his hometown...
When I was 14, Topshop was everything. A glossy emblem of all things trendy, I couldn’t afford many of their wares, but it didn't cost anything to stare lovingly at the rails; the bubble hem skirts worn so effortlessly...