Demi Lovato has always been an incredibly honest pop star. She’s shared over and over her struggles with mental health, her addictions, her relationship with her body image. So when she says at the start of her new documentary...
Lucy Dacus - 'Thumbs'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19BYUvnKjk
There are some stories only Lucy Dacus can tell. ‘Thumbs’ is one of them: not simply a murder fantasy but a brutally beautiful depiction of blind rage and the desire to protect someone you love. Her...
“Let it hurt some, let it hurt some,” commands Catherine Anne Davies at the start of ‘The Art Of Losing’, her second album as The Anchoress. Better to suffer it than to live under it, the record seems to...
St Vincent – ‘Pay Your Way In Pain’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUTu65AXrJw
Picture the scene. It's midday, 70s downtown New York, glass of bourbon in hand. You’re hiding out from some unsavoury associates, ready to skip town at any moment. This is the world...
At a time when so much of the music industry remains bogged down by labels, Genesis Owusu dwells in a world where genre is blissfully extinct. His domain is colourful and visceral, from bright live shows to handmade flamboyant...
On the cover of ‘Poster Girl’, Zara Larsson leans against the side of her bed, a vision in a cropped baby blue jumper. Flowers entwine the bed frame, and posters line the wall behind a teenage altar of candles...
Once upon a time it was Kings Of Leon’s hair that straggled – now it’s their songs. “The pleasures of this life, I'm told / Will spit you out in the middle of the road,” Caleb Followill sings on...
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...