Yaya Bey: ‘september 13th’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FNBRAHUMY&ab_channel=YayaBey
Taken from her forthcoming release on Big Dada 'The Things I Can’t Take With Me', ‘september 13th’ is a quiet track that showcases Yaya Bey’s power to strip an emotion down to its bones and leave...
serpentwithfeet may be a classically-trained singer, but church music is his “natural cadence”, his songs the product of growing up in “a Black ass family in a Black ass church”, as he recently put it. His 2018 debut album...
Evanescence last released original music in a time so distant it might now look to us like a different world – where Donald Trump was just a rich businessman, iTunes reigned supreme over Spotify and ‘Brexit’ and ‘social distancing’...
Since 2007, Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit have fine-tuned their brand of folk and country pop: Americana with all the heartache of ABBA. They wear their beloved musical heroes on their sleeves, song-writing luminaries...
Clicking through channels on a website to find our new favourite bands might not be half as fun as running around Austin, frozen margs and tacos in hand, but at least SXSW Online offered us some fraction of the...
The release of Lana Del Rey’s seventh album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ came amid relatively little fanfare considering it was a follow-up to the biggest record of 2019: ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ There were reasons for this, outside of...
ARXX – ‘Deep’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB8NKe_PUyQ&ab_channel=VariousArtists-Topic
‘Deep’ is the kind of gritty alt-pop anthem that has you aching to hear it over a massive festival PA system, drenched in beer and sunlight. Buzzing with vivacity and brash confidence, it showcases the absolute best...
Justin Bieber is pop’s Goldilocks. Too ubiquitous, too reluctant; too messed-up, too devout; too mainstream, too R&B – his 2015 album ‘Purpose’ rode the EDM wave to huge success, but Bieber’s voice sounded more at home on 2014's R&B...
Loretta Lynn didn’t even know what the country music chart was until her debut single ‘Honky Tonk Girl’ hit number 14 in the summer of 1960. She and her husband famously drove from radio station to radio station, demanding...
After a year in which our collective musical experiences have largely involved listening to sad songs walking aimlessly around a park, keeping things at a sensible volume so as not to annoy the neighbours and trying to kid ourselves...