‘Ultra Mono’ is a record with something to say. It encapsulates that signature IDLES anger and energy that was found within every corner of their previous two records, ‘Brutalism’ and ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’.
The record is drilled...
Sophie Jamieson – 'Release'
https://youtu.be/ayyrV7a_Z-Q
Moving backwards at speed in her self-filmed music video for ‘Release’, Sophie Jamieson spins round the city, where “oblivion never looked so pretty”. And London does look good. Even amid the social-distancing architecture of barriers and...
As with any system that seeks to pit incomparable styles of music against one another in a bid to find ‘the best’, the value of the Mercury Music Prize has never strictly been about crowning a winner. More than...
There’s something so devastatingly intimate about Sylvan Esso’s 'Free Love', headphones feel like a necessity.
On their third full-length album, vocalist Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn continue on their mission to push the boundaries of pop music, blending edgy electronic...
Back in 2018, a paper put together by the Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield, not-so-encouragingly entitled ‘Panic!’, aimed to focus a microscope on the inequalities in the creative industries. Unsurprisingly, what it found wasn’t great.
Amidst huge discrepancies based on...
To put it plainly, putting musicians in positions of political power does not normally make for a positive effect. The idea of Kanye’s Presidential bid made my eyes roll so hard that I think I might have caused some...
Beabadoobee – 'Worth It'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnNHY8CYZXQ
Fans are mega-hyped for Beabadoobee's debut album 'Fake It Flowers' which is out very soon indeed. Given the tracks we've heard so far, it's not going to be a brand new Bea: instead, more of the...
In the midst of 2020, everyone is using the Internet to say everything and nothing. We’re scrolling more than ever, and there’s no shortage of incoming information to have an opinion on – new memes, new coronavirus data, new...
In 2017, the title of Declan McKenna’s debut album asked the listener, “What do you think about the car?” It feels fitting, then, and emblematic of the success the 21-year-old star has seen since, that one of his finest lyrics...
You’d have hoped that the kind of fierce, reactionary backlash against the Dixie Chicks – now known as The Chicks – when they poured scorn on George W Bush in 2003 would now be a thing of the past....