Reviews

Dylan – ‘Blue’  The tracks that rising star Dylan has shared from her upcoming mixtape ‘The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn’ have coursed with confident attitude, whether she’s letting someone know she could be the girl of their dreams or...
On 'Blue Rev', Alvvays envelop fans with the comfort of a warm blanket. From their first outing, 2014’s Polaris prize-shortlisted self-titled album, to their second Juno award-winning 'Antisocialites', fans have come to expect this. Characteristically, their third album is...
Björk leaves yet another matriarchal mark on her tenth album, ‘Fossora’. Here we fall down from previous LP ‘Utopia’ to dig up our roots. The album’s title, translated as “she who digs”, unravels the disruptive layers of growth the...
BIG JOANIE – ‘CONFIDENT MAN’ If you can’t beat the system, join it, right? The third single from the feminist rockers’ forthcoming second album ‘Back Home’ tackles the glorification of capitalist culture and the epitome of “privileged, confident, white male...
“I 've got sticky little words / They heal and they hurt”, sings Maya Hawke on ‘Sticky Little Words’. The track is from Hawke’s second album, ‘Moss’, itself a spellbinding combination of sticky little words. The 13 album tracks...
After another long wait, Blackpink are back. ‘Born Pink’, the group’s second studio album, comes after years of a somewhat irksome label strategy of hype-building: the group’s releases are far apart for K-pop standards (their last was ‘Lovesick Girls’...
Jordana – ‘Is It Worth It Now?’ Figuring out life isn’t usually a dreamy process, but Jordana’s new single makes it feel that way.  A bright guitar line drifts over twinkling synths and a laidback bassline as the Kansas musician asks...
Rina Sawayama has spent a lot of time connecting with her inner child. This introspection led to her second full-length album ‘Hold The Girl’ which blends moments of tender lyricism with joyous party anthems. While she mines her trauma...
It was 1972 when Munich hosted the summer Olympics. 50 years later, the city's Olympic Park forms the playground for Superbloom: a riotous weekend of pop, EDM and hip-hop. Steampunk-clad actors and metalwork robots cycle and skulk around the walkways...
Arctic Monkeys – 'There’d Better Be A Mirrorball' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5CAz6S9kE Fresh off the back of their triumphant headline sets at Reading & Leeds, Arctic Monkeys return in stunning form. Their best Bond theme audition yet, ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ sees Turner...