Reviews

In 2017, the title of Declan McKenna’s debut album asked the listener, “What do you think about the car?” It feels fitting, then, and emblematic of the success the 21-year-old star has seen since, that one of his finest lyrics...
Perto & Banoffee – 'I Miss You ' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YDHcrmvfI As is only fitting for a song that shares a name with Blink 182’s most wistful banger, this team-up from Aussie wunderkinds Perto and Banoffee is thick with whiny emo energy, brought bang...
Lynn Gunn douses her anguish and anxieties in layered synths and gothic metaphor to deliver PVRIS’ most coherent body of work.  Forming in 2012, Pvris now have a few years of experience under their belts. But its with third-studio album,...
Blackpink & Selena Gomez - ‘Ice Cream’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXZj0DzXIA In their second massive collab of the year (following June’s ‘Sour Candy’ with Lady Gaga), K-pop queens BLACKPINK team up with Selena Gomez to serve up a summer treat that slow burns like...
In the last couple years, we have seen Troye Sivan blossom from a break-out artist to a quietly confident queer icon. From the release of his athematic 2018 sophomore album 'Bloom' to unveiling fierce collaborations with Charli XCX and...
It’s been a while since a new Bright Eyes record, and the contemplative weight of ‘Down in the Weeds, Where The World Once Was’ might read as nine years of pent-up emotion. But this is standard operation for the...
Arlo Parks - 'Hurt' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qz4cAAwtv0 Top dogs at Amazon and Zoom aside, Arlo Parks seems to be the only person truly thriving in the hellscape that is 2020. It makes total sense: at a deeply worrying time, her sensitive songwriting taps...
Chumbawumba’s massive 1997 one hit wonder ‘Tubthumping’ isn’t an influence you see cited much in 2020, especially not by American artists. And yet, according to Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, that quintessential soundtrack to ‘90s Britain was key in the writing...
You might recognise her as ice-cream scooper turned monster-ass kicker Robin Buckley in season three of Stranger Things, or perhaps you spotted her famous last name. But you couldn’t accuse the 22-year-old daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman...
Thus far in her career, Nubya Garcia has followed her nose, using her own musical prowess to unite her various projects and fellow musicians in ways that feel bigger than herself, bigger than the music she plays. Whether that’s...