If boygenius were releasing their debut album 20 years ago, a litany of high school alt kids would be changing their AIM and MSN Messenger statuses to lyrics from ‘the record’. Technology might have changed, but our urge to...
TAYLOR SWIFT – ‘NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK’
‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ is another triumph in the pop icon’s project to re-record and reclaim control of her back catalogue. Complete with five new Vault tracks, ‘Now That We Don’t Talk’ honours...
Since launching her surreal YouTube channel back in the mid-’10s – a bemusing collection of robot-voiced videos that granted her cult internet status, performed alongside her ‘friends’, a basil plant and a mannequin called Charlotte - Poppy’s career has...
"Let's take a little trip down Memory Lane, London England!" commands Madonna. It's night three of her Celebration Tour at the O2: a worldwide extravaganza which for the first time, will attempt to traverse her 40 year back catalogue,...
Picture Parlour – 'Judgement Day'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgDvXR0094
Walking a fine line between the nonchalant swagger and poeticism of Alex Turner, and the all-or-nothing urgency and grit that Janis Joplin possessed, ‘Judgement Day’ is a love song of a timeless nature. Vocalist Katherine...
Kaeto – ‘No Body’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdh11P_HmgI
If there’s one thing we all have in common in 2023, it’s that we spend a fair amount of time looking at ourselves through a screen – be that on TikTok videos or curating our lives...
Some things are worth the wait. When Holly Humberstone was named the recipient of the BRITs Rising Star award back in December 2021 – and then appeared on every ones-to-watch list going a month later – it seemed like things...
CMAT’s songwriting can go from wickedly funny, to piercing you right to the core in a matter of seconds. Take 'Have Fun!', the closer of her second album 'Crazymad, For Me', a track that reflects on a relationship post-breakup,...
With lipstick-stained teeth and smeared make-up, there is something in the artwork of Paramore ‘Re: This Is Why’ that instantly feels like the perfect after-party. Offering an extra layer of duality to a record that was already pretty deep,...
English Teacher – 'Nearly Daffodils'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xKTRZm3vI
Moving with the energy of one of Britain’s most exciting new bands, Leeds-based English Teacher are doing an excellent job of maintaining momentum, slowly unfurling new sides to their sound. Where previous works have often...