After the surprise release of ‘folklore’ in July, Taylor Swift fans knew better than to take the American singer’s declaration that there was “Not a lot going on at the moment” at face value. A black and white photograph...
It’s not been an easy ride for Kid Cudi. While his ‘Man On The Moon’ series may have initially launched him into rap superstardom in 2009, the last 11 years have been steeped in critical disapproval and redemption, from...
An answerphone message, a spin of crackly vinyl, and then, Smokey Robinson: “Since I saw you last there's been many a sunset…” So begin proceedings on The Avalanches’ third album, ‘We Will Always Love You’. Since we saw The...
It’s been the year of the livestream, and since March we’ve seen performances blossom from bathroom acoustic performances to full-blown, interactive showcases. This weekend it’s the turn of Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz for 'Song Machine' Live. Forming in 1998, the...
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...