When you truly let your guard down, you risk a flood of emotive material, which could be why Becca Mancari’s second record ‘The Greatest Part’ took just two months to write. Yet it’s no rush job. Her candour gives...
Denai Moore occupies a dark, stately throne on the cover of her third album, ‘Modern Dread’. The tendrils of her silver headpiece twist away to infinite lengths, implying a connection to the outer world as well as entrapment within...
Kanye West – 'Wash Us In The Blood'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0U2QUGKbSE
When Kanye's name starts flashing up in your news feed, you never really know what's going to be at the other end of the click. Maybe he's dropped something that lives up...
Opening and closing their third album with the plaintive call of a saxophone, Haim know that life often goes in cycles. One minute you’re up, the next you’re down; life hands you a third record, and then it deals...
Francis of Delirium’s debut EP ‘All Change’ delves deep within. 18-year-old songwriter Jana Bahrich, being thirty years junior to her collaborator Chris Hewett, have generation-spanning scope, striking the balance between instrumental experience and the cracked-open ache of adolescence. This...
The idea of Dream Wife is extremely difficult to fault. Originally conceived as a conceptual art piece back in 2014, the chemistry between Fine Art students Rakel Mjöll, Alice Go and Bella Podpadec proved so undeniable that the project...
In a recent interview, Jessie Ware recounts being called up for jury service, and struggling to find a neat catch-all sentence to describe exactly what she does. “The judge,” Ware joked to The Guardian, “looked at me as if...
Anderson Paak – 'Lockdown'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c
A ‘sign of the times’ protest song is a hard one to get right, but Anderson Paak nails the tone on ‘Lockdown’. Released on Juneteenth, it addresses the community uprising witnessed at Black Lives Matter protests...
Since the awakened dawn in which humanity discovered that accumulating together in groups centred around instruments, can create genuine historical impact, there have been many an attempt at defining what it means to be a "Rock n' Roll Star"....
If you need a shot of hedonism, then knock back Mealtime’s debut EP, ‘Aperitif’. The Manchester six-piece are club rats, with a sound which spills out of the 00s French house scene, living for a hypnotic headrush and irresistible...