There’s no doubt about it, 'Harlecore' is a weapons-grade cocktail of rave subgenres – shaken, stirred and spat out. In true Danny L Harle style, PC Music’s hyperpop overlord is doing the most. After a night staggering through this...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard possess a back catalogue sizeable enough that they could have been going as long as psychedelia itself. Yet all seventeen albums date from the last ten years. The Australian sextet are often described...
Noname - 'Rainforest'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYrGdvmeqc
“Man, fuck a billionaire!” With her first track since 2020’s ‘Song 33’, ‘Rainforest’ sees Noname at her tenacious best: anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and with a whole stack of talent. From Dr. Seuss and Biggie references to name-dropping Marxist...
“I don’t wanna be the old guy on the block talking about what once was, and that’s why I search for new moments,” Ghetts said in the run-up to his first major label release, ‘Conflict Of Interest’. The 36-year-old...
If news of Daft Punk’s split left a helmet-shaped hole in your heart, the debut album ‘times’ from SG Lewis may offer some consolation. The British producer's first full-length release revels in the legacy of the electronic duo, to...
When Julien Baker was ten years old she asked her father what depression felt like. He replied, “It’s like trying to fill in a giant hole and you’re standing there with your shovel with dirt, and you keep filling...
Mahalia - 'Jealous' ft. Rico Nasty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBGzYkHLRk
“From the Southside / Summer's outside, chillin' Westside” sings Mahalia on the first verse of ‘Jealous’ and whether borne out of fantasy or an earnest sketch of her native Leicester, it’s an endearing way...
Lael Neale’s Twitter bio simply reads “Luddite”, which seems about right given the highly analogue creation of her second record, ‘Acquainted With Night’. Limited to first takes on a 4-track cassette recorder, with little more than a vintage Omnichord...
When Craig Finn sang “Damn right you'll rise again” back in 2005 on ‘Separation Sunday’, The Hold Steady’s second album, he was addressing Holly, the junkie hoodrat who drifts through their entire discography. He was also unknowingly addressing the...
Dua Lipa – 'We’re Good'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr47YisIsz8
On her lead single from ‘Future Nostalgia – The Moonlight Edition’, Dua Lipa discards the dancefloor for a tropical beach, all scuttling crabs and shuffling beats. “I’m on an island,” she begins, in case it...