GHLOW — Slash And Burn
4 Stars
If this is what the apocalypse sounds like, then count us in.
1st April 2021
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1st April 2021
Du Blonde — Homecoming
3-5 Stars
The sound of self-affirmation.
1st April 2021
Ryley Walker — Course In Fable
4 Stars
A typically intricate affair.
1st April 2021
La Femme — Paradigmes
3 Stars
For every gorgeous moment that sticks, there’s an awkward miss.
1st April 2021
Get To Know… Daya
With a brand new EP on the way, meet your new fave pop star.
1st April 2021
Self Esteem: “I’ve written songs about how I bloody feel and I’ve got a feeling that a lot of people will feel like that too”
On debut ‘Compliments Please’, Rebecca Taylor re-emerged with a new solo project and newly ready to seize the world by the balls. On its imminent follow-up, she’s turning it all up to eleven.
1st April 2021
Chloe Moriondo unveils new single ‘I Eat Boys’
It comes ahead of her new album ‘Blood Bunny’.
1st April 2021
Courtney Barnett and Vagabon cover Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Don’t Do It’
Lifted from the forthcoming ‘epic Ten’ double LP.
1st April 2021
Royal Blood share ‘Limbo’ video
The track features on their brand new album ‘Typhoons’.
1st April 2021
Leo Bhanji offers up new track ‘Raw’
It’s the first song lifted from his new EP.
1st April 2021
Brockhampton reveal ‘Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine’ tracklist
Kevin Abstract has also revealed there’ll be another album this year, and “these will be our last”.
1st April 2021
Lorde covers Bruce Springsteen with Marlon Williams
Watch the pair perform ‘Tougher Than The Rest’ now!
1st April 2021
Bree Runway reveals new bop ‘HOT HOT’
“I feel like this is the song everyone needs to hear as it gets hotter and the world eases up.”
1st April 2021
Easy Life share ‘a message to myself’ video
They’ve also announced a UK and European headline tour!
1st April 2021
Get To Know… Folly Group
Releasing a rework of their debut single today, meet the exciting London collective.
1st April 2021
31st March 2021
Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and AJ Tracey among BRIT Awards nominations
Fontaines DC, Celeste and Biffy Clyro are also up for awards.
31st March 2021
Get To Know… Red Moon
With a brand new vid out today, meet the rising Norway-based artist.
31st March 2021
Dua Lipa and Griff to play this year’s BRITs
Watch the surreal visual now.
31st March 2021
Wolf Alice, Damon Albarn and more to play Glastonbury’s ‘Live at Worthy Farm’ stream
It’ll take place on 22nd May.
31st March 2021
Idles announce massive Bristol show
They’ll play to 10,000 people at the Downs later this year.
31st March 2021
CHAI share new single ‘Nobody Knows We Are Fun’
Lifted from their upcoming new album ‘Wink’.
31st March 2021
Squirrel Flower announces new album, ‘Planet (i)’
It’s set for release in June.
31st March 2021
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have teamed up for new album ‘Utopian Ashes’
Listen to lead single ‘Remember We Were Lovers’.
31st March 2021
Dinosaur Jr. release new track ‘Garden’
Their new album ‘Sweep It Into Space’ arrives next month!
31st March 2021
30th March 2021
Ġenn — Liminal
4 Stars
A record that gallops rather than canters.
30th March 2021
29th March 2021
Lovers vs Fighters: Death From Above 1979
Nearing twenty years in the game, Death From Above 1979 are taking total control for the first time and pulling their genre-shredding approach forward with menace.
29th March 2021
Julien Baker goes full band at her virtual Nashville show
She captures the delicacy of her previous work in an altogether more expansive sound.
29th March 2021
26th March 2021
A Dawn Chorus: serpentwithfeet
Manifesting the calm energy of its title, ‘DEACON’ finds serpentwithfeet vocalising the intricacies of Black gay love with a tender new touch.
26th March 2021
Sprints: “We’re very raw and honest, and there’s no real fluff or theatrics around us”
While the absence of live shows may have forced these Dublin noiseniks to change up their next steps, the last challenging year has only made them stronger.
26th March 2021
Tracks: BROCKHAMPTON ft Danny Brown, Beabadoobee, Jungle and more
This week’s biggest and best also feature numbers from black midi and Kele.
26th March 2021
Get To Know… Laufey
With her debut EP arriving next month, meet the Billie Eilish-approved artist.
26th March 2021
25th March 2021
NewDad - Waves
4 Stars
In taking their time, NewDad deliver with notable confidence.
25th March 2021
The Antlers — Green To Gold
4-5 Stars
It feels like the opening of a new chapter, rather than the closing of the last one.
25th March 2021
serpentwithfeet — DEACON
4 Stars
‘DEACON’ looks for hope in love, much like in the spirituality that birthed it.
25th March 2021
Tune-Yards — sketchy.
4 Stars
Frenetic and fizzy.
25th March 2021
Tate McRae — Too Young To Be Sad
3-5 Stars
A solid enough demonstration of what Tate does best.
25th March 2021
Death From Above 1979 — Is 4 Lovers
3-5 Stars
An album which sees the pair attempt to build upon the mythology of their past — and reclaim a little of it, too — it’s a move that largely pays off.
25th March 2021
Citizen — Life In Your Glass World
3-5 Stars
The band have landed between the dense atmospherics of what has come before and a newfound desire to seriously up the energy.
25th March 2021
Ben Howard — Collections From The Whiteout
4 Stars
Melancholy, meticulous and achingly grand.
25th March 2021
Bull — Discover Effortless Living
4 Stars
A guitar-wielding force to be reckoned with.
25th March 2021
L’Impératrice — Tako Tsubo
3-5 Stars
The Parisian intergalactic pop voyagers communicate a retrofuturism that’s rooted firmly in the present.
25th March 2021
Xiu Xiu — OH NO
4 Stars
It’s unlikely to win them any new followers, but existing fans won’t be disappointed.
25th March 2021
Yung Baby Tate, CHAII and Sorry shine at SXSW 2021
Darkoo, Dead Pony, and Iceage also stand-out at this year’s online festival.
25th March 2021
Squid, Nayana Iz and Black Country, New Road wow at British Music Embassy at SXSW 2021
The Brits brought the bangers for the festival’s online edition.
25th March 2021
24th March 2021
Pixey: “I thought I was going to die, but all I remember thinking was, ‘Oh, I never did that music thing did I?’”
From life-threatening illness to one of the UK’s shiniest new stars, pop newbie Pixey is pulling triumph from adversity.
24th March 2021
Pixey — Free To Live In Colour
4 Stars
A solid introduction to a sparky new pop personality, and a perfect antidote to those winter chills.
24th March 2021
23rd March 2021
Tame for Heroes: Mark Ronson on the legacy of Tame Impala’s ‘Innerspeaker’
To mark the 10th anniversary reissue, friend and long-term fan Mark Ronson waxes lyrical on the enduring appeal of the record that first introduced us to Kevin Parker and his box of sonic tricks.
23rd March 2021
Charli XCX’s latest livestream cements her lockdown pop queen status
More than worth slightly fucking up our new-found sensible sleep pattern for.
23rd March 2021
22nd March 2021
Get To Know… dad sports
Their debut EP ‘I AM JUST A BOY LEAVE ME ALONE !!!’ is out now.
22nd March 2021
19th March 2021
Behind The Curtain: Black Honey
Black Honey have never been ones to think small, and on ‘Written & Directed’ their flights of fancy are out in full force. Izzy B. Phillips unpacks the rich world that makes up the band’s second.
19th March 2021
Lana Del Rey — Chemtrails Over the Country Club
3-5 Stars
The confidence feels diminished, the rich production of its predecessor replaced by something thinner, sadder.
19th March 2021
18th March 2021
Sad Night Dynamite: “We inspire ourselves! How Kanye West…”
The FKA twigs-approved West Country duo, creating dystopian music you can dance to.
18th March 2021
Chad VanGaalen — World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener
4 Stars
His cartoonish appetite for invention remains intact.
18th March 2021
Black Honey — Written & Directed
4 Stars
It sees the quartet evolving into the rock outfit they’d always threatened to be.
18th March 2021
William Doyle — Great Spans of Muddy Time
3-5 Stars
What is constant are its dazzling, spontaneous qualities.
18th March 2021
emir taha — Hoppa Pt. 2
3-5 Stars
One to keep an eye on.
18th March 2021
Blanketman — National Trust
3 Stars
Fans of Parquet Courts or Sports Team will certainly find something to enjoy here.
18th March 2021
Middle Kids — Today We’re The Greatest
2-5 Stars
A little bit middle-of-the-road.
18th March 2021
The Neu Bulletin (ENNY, L’objectif, Steele FC and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
18th March 2021
17th March 2021
The Full Monty: William Doyle
On ‘Great Spans of Muddy Time’, William Doyle is letting down his guard, leaning into his eccentricities and paying homage to… Monty Don?
17th March 2021
15th March 2021
Other Side Of Oblivion: Julien Baker
Addressing failure and confronting her struggles, ‘Little Oblivions’ finds Julien Baker stamping her space in the middle of life’s confusing Venn diagram.
15th March 2021
11th March 2021
Do Nothing — Glueland
4-5 Stars
It doesn’t all make sense, but you sense that’s the point.
11th March 2021
The Horrors — Lout
4-5 Stars
Their boldest, most exciting switch-flip in years.
11th March 2021
The Neu Bulletin (VLURE, Kasai, spill tab and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
11th March 2021
Hall Of Fame: ‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?’
Crash-landing in a surge of hype, The Vaccines’ debut divided people and yet ultimately conquered.
11th March 2021
9th March 2021
What’s Going On With… Sorry
Singer Asha Lorenz gives us the goss on ‘925’’s follow-up and more.
9th March 2021
8th March 2021
King Nun: “The world changed & we didn’t want to sing songs that were without purpose”
Although King Nun haven’t released music since 2019, their charismatic socials illustrate how artists can captivate an audience without releasing music: here, Theo Polyzoides explains how.
8th March 2021
MØ Music, Less Problems
Following the release of last month’s ‘Live To Survive’, Karen Marie Ørsted is channelling that resilient spirit straight into LP3.
8th March 2021
6th March 2021
Sorry, Goat Girl, Connie Constance and more set Hackney ablaze at DIY’s Big Bank Holiday Weekender
Live music — oh how we’ve missed you.
6th March 2021
5th March 2021
Lights, Camera, Larsson!
She’s a bona fide pop sensation with more than six million online followers watching her every move, but beneath the polish, Zara Larsson is still determined to cut through the bullshit.
5th March 2021
Tracks (St Vincent, girl in red, The Streets & more)
The biggest and best tracks of the past week, rounded up and reviewed.
5th March 2021
Blood Wizard takes us through debut album ‘Western Spaghetti’
We get a track-by-track run through of the new record.
5th March 2021
Get To Know… Blu DeTiger
Her debut EP ‘How Did We Get Here?’ is out now!
5th March 2021
4th March 2021
Genesis Owusu — Smiling With No Teeth
4 Stars
He plays well with dark and sinister, throwing theatrical voice in a musical hall of mirrors with real versatility.
4th March 2021
Zara Larsson — Poster Girl
4 Stars
Pure pop escapism.
4th March 2021
Adult Mom — Driver
4 Stars
If it were as easy as Adult Mom makes it sound to write pop gems this endearing in their honesty, everybody would be doing it.
4th March 2021
Arab Strap — As Days Get Dark
4 Stars
The vivid, often lurid portraits Aidan Moffat paints of the society around him feel more vital than ever.
4th March 2021
Kings of Leon — When You See Yourself
3 Stars
An album that, though not without its fillers, feels like they’re having more genuine fun than they’ve had in years.
4th March 2021
Tigers Jaw — I Won’t Care How You Remember Me
3 Stars
It all-but removes the punch that once established them.
4th March 2021
Blu DeTiger — How Did We Get Here?
3-5 Stars
A promising introduction to where Blu’s music could go.
4th March 2021
Nuha Ruby Ra — How To Move
3-5 Stars
The emotionally-graphic EP wastes little time with pleasantries.
4th March 2021
The Neu Bulletin (Folly Group, SEB, Bedrooms and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
4th March 2021
26th February 2021
Gang of Four: Goat Girl
Celebrating a second album that cements their special sonic alchemy, against the backdrop of a world on the brink of implosion Goat Girl are holding on to each other more than ever.
26th February 2021
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis — Carnage
4-5 Stars
A jewel in the Cave-Ellis cannon.
26th February 2021
25th February 2021
Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains — Banane Bleue
3-5 Stars
When he delivers, Frànçois can still make pure, earnest, and enduring connections.
25th February 2021
Julien Baker — Little Oblivions
4-5 Stars
A soundtrack for those searching for hope in difficult times.
25th February 2021
Cloud Nothings — The Shadow I Remember
4 Stars
Raw and uncompromising, yet always harbouring a degree of melody.
25th February 2021
Sydney Sprague — maybe i will see you at the end of the world
4 Stars
It unravels in waves of angst, reflection and dark humour.
25th February 2021
Architects — For Those That Wish To Exist
4 Stars
The bleaker things get, the stronger they emerge.
25th February 2021
Deap Vally — Digital Dream
4 Stars
As stop-gap releases go, this is a gem.
25th February 2021
Danny L Harle — Harlecore
3-5 Stars
While ‘Harlecore’ may be primed to bring the party, it’s just not quite the mad one we were hoping for.
25th February 2021
Maxïmo Park — Nature Always Wins
3-5 Stars
There’s no upturning of the band’s musical blueprint, but their social conscience has earned them a third act.
25th February 2021
The Neu Bulletin (Baby Queen, CMAT, Greentea Peng and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
25th February 2021
24th February 2021
Get To Know… deep tan
The East London trio have just announced their debut EP!
24th February 2021
Get To Know… CMAT
Fresh off the release of new single ‘I Don’t Really Care For You’, meet the self-proclaimed global pop star.
24th February 2021
20th February 2021
Tracks (Years & Years, Alfie Templeman, Manchester Orchestra & more)
The biggest and best tracks of the past week, rounded up and reviewed.
20th February 2021
19th February 2021
Nasty Girl: Rico Nasty
A self-proclaimed weirdo, Rico Nasty has always embraced her otherness. Now, she’s using her uniqueness to raise up others who feel like they’ve got no-one else to turn to.
19th February 2021
Get To Know… Softcult
The pair’s debut EP, ‘Year Of The Rat’, arrives in April.
19th February 2021
Get To Know… beaux
His new EP ‘a love letter to the moments spent outside’ is out now.
19th February 2021
18th February 2021
Lauren Auder: “I want to truly talk about the emotional repercussions of living in this capitalist hellscape. You know?!”
Equally attuned to the modern and the mystical, 22-year-old Lauren Auder is carving out an artistic space in her own image.
18th February 2021