Sunflower Bean – ‘Who Put You Up To This?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca2oCbZ--4
“We’re letting go for real,” Julia Cumming sings on the twilight psych groove of ‘Who Put You Up To This?’, the second taste of Sunflower Bean’s upcoming third album ‘Headful Of...
Warpaint - ‘Champion’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJznPy_iM4M
Revelling in the spaces between has always been Warpaint’s thing. Since emerging and defining a particular period of early ‘10s alternative guitar music, their greatest trick has always been to know that less is more: enthralling, aloof,...
Though many festivals hoped to see a full return in 2022, the further rise in COVID cases has once more scuppered plans across the board. But this hasn’t stopped organisers from getting the music out there someway, somehow; in...
CMAT - ‘Lonely’
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ASQcWTLlp5BwUosCUZOoe?si=3Yr-cYMhSem10r1QY0gaSw
Over the last couple of isolated years, you might have found yourself searching for companionship in unusual places. CMAT can relate: “Who needs God when I have Robbie Williams? / Who needs boys with these voices in...
When carving out a solo career after a lengthy tenure in a beloved band, you have a choice to make. You can either take the Liam Gallagher route, AKA carry on swaggering down the same path, just without the...
On paper, there’s a lot that sounds awfully familiar about Yard Act. Four lads from Yorkshire playing guitar music that could largely be described as ‘wiry’ with a vocalist fond of a spoken word-style monologue, the quartet seem to...
Let's Eat Grandma – ‘Happy New Year’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R9qLldd7_U
Back with a topical banger, Norwich wunderkinds Let’s Eat Grandma have kicked-started 2022 by playing Calvin Harris at his own game; big euphoric synths and nostalgic recollection of poignant memories, utilising the occasion...
In his last album ‘After Hours’, and particularly in the unforgettable single ‘Blinding Lights’, The Weeknd gave us all-out 80s nostalgia mixed with forward-thinking pop. ‘Dawn FM’, his fifth studio album, sees the Canadian artist take this a step...
As a child, Willow Smith would watch her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, perform with her band Wicked Wisdom to racist, sexist crowds, each night fighting to prove her place in the rock scene. Rock – and its many sub-genres...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1kwS3riCQI
Hwasa – ‘I’m a 빛’
It’s been 17 months since MAMAMOO singer and rapper Hwasa last blessed us with a slinky solo offering, but finally she’s returned with something equally as addictive as 2020 highlight ‘Maria’. ‘I’m a 빛’ (pronounced...