Living a Hannah Montana lifestyle of balancing her studies alongside music, London dream-pop singer flowerovlove is learning to harness her “main character energy”.
26th May 2022
Ottawa musician Hannah Judge has had her fair share of challenges over the past year, but it’s with her debut album that she’s been able to find herself again.
20th May 2022
4 Stars
This techno-charged offering upscales the drops, fidgety distortion and replay value that has proved a constant in his playbook.
20th May 2022
3-5 Stars
It finds its voice through an ever more personal lens, one that dials down the familiar ignitable fare in favour of intricate ambient spread.
20th May 2022
4 Stars
A fresh and welcome face that disregards gatekeeping in favour of utilising nostalgia to captivate new audiences.
20th May 2022
4-5 Stars
It might be riddled with hurt but its takeaway feels a lot like hope.
20th May 2022
4 Stars
While with one hand he’s exploring vivid lyrical micro-vignettes, he’s still obfuscating with the other.
20th May 2022
3-5 Stars
‘Nervous At Night’ places Charlie at a crossroads, largely in-keeping with its coming of age tale.
20th May 2022
4 Stars
A long-overdue homecoming.
20th May 2022
4 Stars
Body Type at their most cheeky, assertive, and forward-looking.
20th May 2022
3 Stars
Nearly as jumbled as what the band’s algorithm may have spat back at them first time around.
20th May 2022
Just missing out on Number One with their debut, Sports Team are getting back in the ring with “intense” follow up “Gulp!’. Rural writing retreats! “Less songs about roundabouts!” It’s all go on LP2:
20th May 2022
4 Stars
For anyone who finds comfort in revelling in stripped-back melancholy, it’s a dream.
20th May 2022
A dancing, singing double threat with big dreams and the talent to match, Tate McRae is just getting started.
19th May 2022
“these 12 songs chronicle misery, joy, yearning, and all of the heartbreak of existing.”
19th May 2022
On third album “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’, Porridge Radio have stretched their ambitions and emotions to the extreme.
19th May 2022
Born of living through trauma and coming out the other side, “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong’ finds Sharon Van Etten attempting to write her own coping mechanisms.
18th May 2022
Gorillaz, Burna Boy and Fred again.. provide standout moments as the Finnish festival opens its gates once again.
18th May 2022
4-5 Stars
If there’s any shred of justice in the world, this is going to be a future emo classic.
18th May 2022
Check out new track ‘Jenny’ now.
17th May 2022
The biggest and best new tracks from the last week.
14th May 2022
4 Stars
His least straightforward record, and his most confessional.
13th May 2022
3-5 Stars
This might actually be the most varied record they’ve made in a decade.
13th May 2022
5 Stars
Change, escape and identity are not easy things to navigate, and ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is the dark, unsettling, sprawling beauty that comes out of it.
13th May 2022
4 Stars
The Brisbane-based songwriter takes steps towards a bigger amalgam of influences.
13th May 2022
4 Stars
His distinctive voice, ranging from guttural lows to a glittering falsetto, is the tool he uses to sculpt out his vast sonic vision.
13th May 2022
4 Stars
A welcome shot of fairy-tale hedonism ripe for post-pandemic dancefloor indulgence.
13th May 2022
On third album “Headful of Sugar’, Sunflower Bean are railing against the expectations of the capitalist world and digging further into their own dynamic than ever before.
10th May 2022
Jamie T’s career has been far from normal; long pauses, minimal social media presence, selective interviews. On the eve of “The Theory Of Whatever’, he’s hoping the music will do the talking for him.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
These songs have a real and sincere heart.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Very much the most mature Sharon Van Etten offering to date — and perhaps the most musically accomplished, too.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Ultimately an exercise in Sunflower Bean showing off that they can do just about everything well.
6th May 2022
4 Stars
The more icy edges are rounded off in favour of softness and a nurturing sense of femininity.
6th May 2022
4 Stars
An album that paves a sonically brighter and broader future ahead.
6th May 2022
4 Stars
Exploring identities past and present playfully, and with immediacy.
6th May 2022
4 Stars
When they’re serving up classical pop tracks this accomplished, it’s ground you’re delighted to hear them going back over.
6th May 2022
3-5 Stars
Sigrid is colliding with herself, accepting everything she is, the light and the dark.
6th May 2022
The band’s Fran Keaney and Tom Russo take us inside the isolated mud-brick house in the Australian bush where their third album was born.
5th May 2022
As her collaboration with R√∂yksopp is released, we speak to the electro-pop pioneer about working on “Profound Mysteries’, the current pop landscape, and what the future may hold for Goldfrapp.
4th May 2022
The biggest and best new tracks from the last week.
29th April 2022
After years of having their cutting messages ignored by the wider industry, Bob Vylan are more than content to forge their own path. Now, with the release of their second album, it’s paying off:
25th April 2022
4 Stars
After five Warpaint-less years, two buses have come along at once.
23rd April 2022
As she moves across the world on the eve of releasing new album ‘Giving The World Away’, Harriette Pilbeam discusses a second album full of personal revelations.
22nd April 2022
4 Stars
A tentative, intricate construction of melodies.
22nd April 2022
5 Stars
It’s heavy, but never heavy-going.
22nd April 2022
4-5 Stars
One of the year’s most essential records yet.
22nd April 2022
4-5 Stars
Everything that brilliant self-titled EP promised and more.
22nd April 2022
3 Stars
Despite the album featuring several enjoyable moments, the listener is left feeling that it’s somewhat rambling and unfocused.
22nd April 2022
3-5 Stars
There’s just enough on ‘Everything…’ to ingratiate fans both new and old.
22nd April 2022
DIY’s essential, weekly (ish) guide to the best new music highlights some newbies performing this weekend!
22nd April 2022
The biggest and best new tracks from the last two weeks.
22nd April 2022
4 Stars
Cinematic, sweeping dream-pop that evokes the longing of the Cranberries and melancholy of Cocteau Twins.
22nd April 2022
With debut album ‘Ivory’ set to open him up to an even wider audience, Omar Apollo’s emotional storytelling and embrace of his Mexican-American heritage is breaking through to the R&B; big leagues.
19th April 2022
3-5 Stars
Unquestionably one of Kurt’s easier-going records.
15th April 2022
Two transatlantic best friends brought together by fate, Prima Queen are now turning heads with their warmly powerful indie-rock.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
It flits between theatricality and poignancy.
8th April 2022
4-5 Stars
He’s transporting himself to a different world.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
Nine times out of ten, the scale of their ambition pays monumental dividends.
8th April 2022
4-5 Stars
Ferociously heavy, wonderfully weird.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
Conflating his electro-pop tendencies with the occasional stride of a campfire guitar, he turns everything he touches to glistening radio gold.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
It finds the pop star navigating life while falling in love, and is more than worth the wait.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
It’s vulnerable, it’s heartfelt, and above all it feels real.
8th April 2022
4 Stars
A record that reaches across the generational divide through both its mastery of sound and the universality of its stories.
8th April 2022
3-5 Stars
It finds him at his most confident, if not most innovative, and maybe his most comfortable.
8th April 2022
5 Stars
Packed with righteous middle fingers and playful bon mots.
8th April 2022
The biggest and best of the week’s new releases.
8th April 2022
It’s produced by The xx bandmate, Jamie xx.
7th April 2022
With their debut album released this month, Speedy Wunderground’s latest signings are weaving a heady, hypnotic spell.
6th April 2022
Armed with his debut album proper “I Don’t Like You’, Christian Alexander is ready to take his lo-fi charm worldwide.
5th April 2022
Walt Disco’s message of inclusivity has spread from the underground venues of Glasgow to the dusty streets of Texas, and with debut “Unlearning’ they’re opening their arms to let the whole world in.
4th April 2022
Presenting country through a proudly campy, queer lens, Orville Peck has been changing the game since cantering into view with debut “Pony’. On “Bronco’, he’s taking us on an even more untamed ride.
1st April 2022
4 Stars
This anarchic debut teaches us to embrace uncertainty with open arms, and express ourselves however we see fit.
1st April 2022
Lifted from his upcoming debut album ‘Mellow Moon’.
1st April 2022
Wolf Alice and Glass Animals make their cases for future headliner status across a wonderfully chaotic weekend of live music.
1st April 2022
4 Stars
An appetising hors d’oeuvre for a main course which, we can only hope, is soon to follow.
1st April 2022
4-5 Stars
Fizzing hyperpop influences tie with skyward melodies to create a near-masterpiece.
1st April 2022
4 Stars
Intimacy is replaced here by an urgent yearning for something bigger.
1st April 2022
2-5 Stars
Whatever your view on the Chili Peppers, this record will only confirm it.
1st April 2022
This trailblazer of a debut album from 2011 kickstarted a sound that went on to dominate pop music in the following years. Before long, Beyoncé, Kendrick and Frank were picking up the phone…
1st April 2022
The big guns haven’t stopped this week, oh no…
1st April 2022
3 Stars
Their knack for incredible hooks is still there, but the effortless fun seems to have fallen by the wayside.
1st April 2022
The band are playing the album in full at NYC’s Governors Ball, with more shows promised.
28th March 2022
5 Stars
An album not caught in time.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
After years of reflection, this is a steady steep back towards the future.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
As much a great musician as she is an illusionist who dazzles the listener with stylish tricks.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
A snapshot of intimacy, thriving friendships and a profound understanding of the human condition.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
A blitzing disco-ball of a record.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
A superlative ode to vulnerability.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
It’s where they’ll look next that’s exciting, though.
25th March 2022
4 Stars
The outfit strut between intimate and aloof with a raffish sincerity that injects life into well-worn genre moves.
25th March 2022
With 2020 debut album “Who Are The Girls?’, Nova Twins ripped up the rulebook of rock music and then some. With follow-up “Supernova’, they’re declaring who they are for all to hear.
25th March 2022
It’s time for the biggest and best new music of the week.
25th March 2022
Armed with a third album that’s the most “them” yet, Georgia Maq tells us all about ‘Running With The Hurricane’.
24th March 2022
mxmtoon pushes the boundaries of her bedroom pop origins on new single “Mona Lisa’, and invites us into a bolder, more personal sound.
24th March 2022
As we move ever closer to the inaugural edition of DIY Alive next month, we get a little better acquainted with bluesy Brighton singer — and our Sunday night headliner — Lily Moore:
23rd March 2022
On their bold new album “Topical Dancer’, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have become masters of their own musical Trojan Horse.
22nd March 2022
The group have added 20 new shows!
21st March 2022
It’s been a long and bumpy road for Kojey Radical but, with long-awaited debut LP ‘Reason To Smile’, the multi-hyphenate Londoner is finally ready to come good on all the potential.
21st March 2022
Meet the Glaswegian quintet rewriting the rulebook on post-punk, and giving it a good dose of club culture.
21st March 2022
Listen to new single ‘Make Me Wanna’ now.
18th March 2022