‘Radical Romantics’ seamlessly explores realms of shapeshifting with ease, beauty and competence. For Karin Dreijer, otherwise known as Fever Ray, their first solo album in six years returns with assurance – skillfully moulding different identities throughout its tracklisting in...
Black Honey’s discography, compiled of their 2018 self-titled debut and 2021’s Top 10 follow-up, 'Written & Directed', has allowed Izzy Bee Phillips to become a spokesperson for life’s outliers, connecting her with like-minded souls who resonate with her memories...
When a group has you up at 8 am, light stick in hand, parked in front of your laptop ready to stream their first-ever headline show, you know you’ve fully caught the K-Pop bug. But aespa aren’t just any...
Gracie Abrams spends the first three minutes of her debut album, ‘Good Riddance’, apologising. “I was so negligent / I feel terrible about how I handled it”, she sings on album opener, ‘Best’.
It’s a complicated apology – regretful and...
In the opening moments of Caroline Polachek’s new album, ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ – the second under her real name, and seventh overall – the alt-pop singer wails in vocal intervals for 25 seconds. Soaring atop...
For the prodigal return of Paramore, who had been on hiatus since 2017’s Grammy-nominated ‘After Laughter’, Hayley Williams re-dyed her hair that trademark red. The blonde era was a long one, encompassing ‘After Laughter’ and Williams’ solo album ‘Petals...
Alex Lahey - ‘Good Time’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsRafjwS8Fc
“I just want a good time/don’t care how/but I know everybody needs it.’’ So sings Alex Lahey, summing up the transition from January blues into the promise of forthcoming spring. Gearing up for the release...
DAISY JONES & THE SIX – ‘REGRET ME’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ywkDC9rEo
Not only is ‘Regret Me’ an exciting debut single, but it arrives from a totally new band – a fictional one, albeit. The first single from the eponymous 1970s group based on...
Few sophomore albums are preceded by the kind of devoted anticipation that surrounded SZA’s ‘SOS’. Since the release of her now-seminal debut ‘Ctrl’ in 2017 – an alternative R&B album that, five years later, continues to feel as relatable...
"Bloody Nora, this is nice!" Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale is surveying the crowd at London's sold-out Forum: a venue that's about 10 times too small for the five-time Grammy-nominated band, who only released their first single eighteen months ago.
Arriving...