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...
It has been a strange old year, 2020, and during an exceedingly bizarre time pop music has consistently delivered the goods. From the utopian Eurotrash of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ and Dua Lipa strutting nu-disco right through to the return...
For anyone on the outside of the autistic community, the reaction to the trailer for singer Sia’s new film, Music, might seem a little unfair. The film, which is about a newly sober woman called Zu (Kate Hudson) who...
Arlo Parks – 'Caroline'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kYkFRYbaU
Like a friend relating an anecdote in the pub, Arlo Parks tells you quietly about the break-up she witnessed one day at a bus-stop. ‘Caroline’, the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, is...
The Grammy nominations for 2021 have been as divisive as ever. The Weeknd called corruption after being snubbed (despite having the best-selling album in the US). Justin Bieber had a little whinge about being in the wrong category after...