In the modern alternative landscape, there are few artists these days embracing true darkness – not just of the furious, half-spoken-half-ranted political kind, but of the sort that comes from somewhere deeper within, armed with an arsenal of industrial...
“EUSEXUA is a mixture of this psychedelic, childlike playful exploration of what it is to be human but mixed with an undertone of raw, dirty, hard sexual grit.”
“EUSEXUA is the moment before an orgasm”
“Eusexua is for the girls who...
Horsegirl – ‘Julie’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9zU1VBebk&pp=ygUPaG9yc2VnaXJsIGp1bGll
Horsegirl’s 2022 album ‘Versions Of Modern Performance’ introduced a very special young band and, on its follow-up ‘Phonetics On And On’, they look set to cement their position under that banner. ‘Julie’ is more lowkey than previous single...
Sky Ferreira – 'Leash'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0JeugTeNs
Newly independent and heading up the forthcoming Babygirl soundtrack, Sky Ferreira’s first single since 2022 is a doozy, merging 80s synths with something that feels more inherently trapped in 2013; the call-and-response double-layered chorus, the moody...
Forget Spotify Wrapped, you've arrived at the only year in review you need. And what a year it was.
For us, 2024's best albums were united by a sense of authenticity. Perhaps fuelled by the trashfire that was the world...
Prima Queen – 'Ugly'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xr8b4uY_M
A beautiful cacophony comes from the janky drumbeat which subtly changes time signatures, clashing against a rhythmic bass line, and dream-like vocals; echoing the unexpected twists and turns that a situationship can take. “How can it...
Aziya – ‘Bambi'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TMyk409G4
“I don’t wanna be Bambi,” Londoner Aziya declares on the title track of her new mixtape, which follows her on a journey to self-assurance and reliance. ‘Bambi’, with its steely beats and rush of metallic synths, is reflective...
Ethel Cain - 'Punish'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvMmTsZVLo
Teased at live shows throughout 2024, Ethel Cain returns with the recorded version of ‘Punish’, the first single from her forthcoming sophomore record, 'Perverts'. Every inch as haunting as its title suggests, it swells from...
Charli XCX - 'Spring Breakers' ft Kesha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO2_O1L_YY
Four months on from its original drop and the lime green supremacy of ‘Brat’ is still serving at the rate of a top seeded Wimbledon champ. Not content with gathering an entire Met...
“When The Fugees would come to London it was lethal, we’d tell the whole place to come together right now like The Beatles. Wake the town and tell the people, we gon’ do it like we used to.” These...