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'
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...