Tierra Whack - 'Dora'
If ever a year has needed a dose of Tierra Whack it’s this one. Back with her first solo single since March 2019, the Philly-raised MC offers some much needed escapism with ‘Dora’, a sunny slice...
For most people, 2020 has been rough enough, a total ‘thank u, next’ of a year. For Ariana Grande, however, it’s a relatively quiet time compared to her recent turbulences. On ‘Positions’, the star’s sixth record, you sense she...
Jim-E Stack is staging an intervention against winter. At least, it sounds that way on his second album ‘EPHEMERA’, which carries all the honeyed cliché of summer: blue skies, ice-cream, denim shorts, “sweet summer sweat”. Listening to the record...
A mash-up of Bring Me The Horizon’s 2013 single ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ – niftily dubbed ‘Can You Feel My WAP’ – went viral last weekend, and quite frankly had...
With Billie Eilish’s career sky-rocketing over the past four years – an ever-growing social media following (a casual 67 million), five Grammy wins, three Billboard awards and what would have been an expansive world arena tour this year –...
“I’m cute but I might kick you,” Connie Constance said in an interview last year. It’s a fairly apt description of her new EP ‘The Butterfly Club’ too, if you’re looking for a seven-word review. But the British musician’s...
Releasing music reactively isn’t anything new – it’s been a fixture of hip-hop for ages and even the pop world has started to catch up with that spontaneity since Ariana Grande switched things up with ‘Thank U, Next’. With Gorillaz’s...
"The purpose of art is self-expression. To review is to look over or improve, but I cannot express for another. So it is not possible. Instead I offer what I can" – Noodle.
Benee ft. Lily Allen and Flo Milli...
‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ – clipping.'s fourth album – is the opposite of ASMR – unless you’re soothed by disconcerting creaks, jumps and actual ghosts. Like previous record, ‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’, the first of clipping.’s...
The worlds of song-writing and ASMR draw ever closer. Last week Phoebe Bridgers appeared on an ASMR Youtube channel, and this week Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker releases a pair of solo albums recorded with a binaural mic, capturing every...