Releasing music reactively isn’t anything new – it’s been a fixture of hip-hop for ages and even the pop world has started to catch up with that spontaneity since Ariana Grande switched things up with ‘Thank U, Next’. With Gorillaz’s...
"The purpose of art is self-expression. To review is to look over or improve, but I cannot express for another. So it is not possible. Instead I offer what I can" – Noodle.
Benee ft. Lily Allen and Flo Milli...
At a time where we’re all stuck at home perpetually scrolling Twitter for some kind of enlightenment, it doesn’t take much for a popstar to temporarily ‘fracture’ the internet. Billie Eilish knows this more than most. A decidedly leftfield,...
From club bangers to study playlists, music and uni are inseparable from one another. A single track can conjure sticky dancefloors, the sickly smell of Jägerbombs or the first time you dropped a pill. But this year is a...
‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ – clipping.'s fourth album – is the opposite of ASMR – unless you’re soothed by disconcerting creaks, jumps and actual ghosts. Like previous record, ‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’, the first of clipping.’s...
The worlds of song-writing and ASMR draw ever closer. Last week Phoebe Bridgers appeared on an ASMR Youtube channel, and this week Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker releases a pair of solo albums recorded with a binaural mic, capturing every...
While nineties nostalgia has never been more in vogue, the culture surrounding Britpop seems to have aged about as brilliantly as the running gags in ‘Friends’. It’s not just its associations with laddish attitudes and rockism, either: it’s about...
You'll remember, five years ago, the world was split over the colour of a dress. Was it white and gold? Or blue and black?
It seems that now, Billie Eilish may have discovered the follow-up to this mystery with...
LAUV AND CONAN GRAY – ‘FAKE’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qFVUYBWfGw
Do you struggle with calling people out for being two-faced, terrible friends? Get caught in a trap of your own niceness no longer! Pop princes Lauv and Conan Gray have teamed up – on the latter’s...
Like the rest of us, James Blake has been missing nights out during our continued quarantined existence. The superglue stickiness of grimy dancefloors, pints that cost almost as much as you paid to get in, that one paralytic stranger...