Two years ago, Laura Jane Grace sang about how much she hated her home city of Chicago. Now she’s kinda stuck there. But ‘I Hate Chicago’, a tongue-in-cheek track off her 2018 debut solo record ‘Bought To Rot’, didn’t...
“We’re Bikini Kill and we want revolution, Girl-style now!” Kathleen Hanna yelled out on Bikini Kill’s 1992 track, ‘Double Dare Ya’, 15 years after X-Ray Spex’s release of ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’, in 1977. The sub-genres of riot grrrl...
“Hi, hi, howdy, howdy, hi, hi!’” sang Shamir cheerfully on the opening moments of his breakthrough single ‘On the Regular’ back in 2014 ”while everyone is minus, you could call me multiply”. Besides being a ridiculously snappy hook, backed...
To date Deftones are filed under at least seventeen different musical genres. So for the uninitiated, their highly distilled ninth record ‘Ohms’ is perversely a pretty good introduction to the Californian band. ‘Ohms’ reels and shakes for forty-five minutes...
When your seventh studio album is the one that finally sparks critical acclaim, it must be an odd feeling. Sufjan Stevens was well known in indie circles long before the release of 2015's 'Carrie and Lowell' – a touching...
2020 will be remembered for three things: Coronavirus, the BLM movement and two of hip-hop's finest writing a song about the moistness of their nether regions. WAP hasn't been without controversy and where there's controversy, luckily for us, there's...
‘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'
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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...