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For all of the confessional and twisted songwriting that has permeated her work, Billie Eilish has always held on to a deep level of privacy over her personal life. So it was perhaps surprising to hear that she'd agreed...
Five years ago, on February 26 2016, The 1975’s second album arrived in a striking blaze of pink neon. ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It’ was an epic, theatrical reinvention...
“I don’t wanna be the old guy on the block talking about what once was, and that’s why I search for new moments,” Ghetts said in the run-up to his first major label release, ‘Conflict Of Interest’. The 36-year-old...
There are few modern bands for whom we could realistically tell you that their comeback track sounds like A) a thwacking, thundering juggernaut, B) a subtle, slow-building, almost religious experience or C) a cheeky, sling-your-arm-around-your-mates jubilant bop and all...
If news of Daft Punk’s split left a helmet-shaped hole in your heart, the debut album ‘times’ from SG Lewis may offer some consolation. The British producer's first full-length release revels in the legacy of the electronic duo, to...
The 1990s and 2000s were a gold mine for cheating songs (what on earth was in the water?) and two genres reign supreme here: country music and R&B. All the greats should have at least one song about smashing...
You think Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath invented Satan-summoning occult rock? Think again. A year before Black Sabbath’s doomy debut came Coven’s 'Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls', a deeply controversial 1969 release, not least because of its naked...
When Julien Baker was ten years old she asked her father what depression felt like. He replied, “It’s like trying to fill in a giant hole and you’re standing there with your shovel with dirt, and you keep filling...
Mahalia - 'Jealous' ft. Rico Nasty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBGzYkHLRk “From the Southside / Summer's outside, chillin' Westside” sings Mahalia on the first verse of ‘Jealous’ and whether borne out of fantasy or an earnest sketch of her native Leicester, it’s an endearing way...
It’s difficult to put your finger on why, but there’s something about the boom of podcast-listening that has often felt like a very ‘older millennial’ pursuit. Maybe it’s the quietly intellectual nature of the format, the focused concentration it...