Contributor Joe Goggins

Reviews / Album

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories

January 16, 2020 7:55am

Features

DIY’s Albums of the Year 2019

Team DIY pick out their favourite records from the year.

December 20, 2019 10:00am

Features / Interviews

Class of 2020: Walt Disco

Theatrical and aesthetically-minded, Walt Disco aren’t just thinking about making brilliantly weird pop music - they’re concentrating on the whole expressive package.

December 12, 2019 6:31pm

Features / Interviews

The Better and Better Land: Fontaines DC

Since the release of ‘Dogrel’, Fontaines DC have been on an unstoppable upwards trajectory. As they prepare to close out 2019 with a sold-out tour, we check in with the breakthrough band of the year.

November 20, 2019 4:26pm

Reviews / Album

Drones Club - Big World

It is not punchy, inventive or original. Instead, it’s deeply anaemic.

November 7, 2019 7:50am

Features / Interviews

Positive Destruction: Pumarosa

Upon the release of their debut album, Pumarosa’s world was turned upside down and not in the way they expected. With follow-up ‘Devastation’, they’re taking that part of their history and owning it.

October 28, 2019 1:35pm

Reviews / Album

Anna Meredith - FIBS

Joyous stuff.

October 24, 2019 7:58am

Reviews / Album

Liz Lawrence - Pity Party

There’s promise on ‘Pity Party’, but Liz Lawrence remains a work in progress.

October 24, 2019 7:50am

Reviews / Album

404 - Guild Two: Forever

Silvertongue is the beating heart of ‘Guild Two…’.

October 18, 2019 7:56am

Reviews / Album

Tourist - Wild

The unabashed sound of William Philips throwing his latest batch of ideas at the proverbial wall and seeing what sticks.

October 17, 2019 7:56am

Reviews / Album

DIIV - Deceiver

‘Deceiver’ is Cole’s first truly clear-eyed artistic statement - it’s also his most mature.

October 3, 2019 7:56am

Reviews / Album

Halfnoise - Natural Disguise

A likeable diversion.

October 3, 2019 7:53am

News

Zuzu brings a sense of fun to her Jäger Curtain Call show at Liverpool’s Phase One

The signs are positive across the board ahead of a what’s looking like a breakthrough 2020.

September 23, 2019 7:30pm

Reviews / Album

LIFE - A Picture Of Good Health

They’re hitting their stride just as the Brexit void looms. Accordingly, this record is indispensable.

September 20, 2019 8:00am

Reviews / Album

Vivian Girls - Memory

September 20, 2019 7:58am

Features / Interviews

“I write about what I feel” - Cassie Kinoshi talks SEED Ensemble’s debut ‘Driftglass’

Led by the prolific composer and alto-saxophonist, the collective’s debut saw them fuse together vibrant jazz and grooves with influences from across their own rich backgrounds.

September 18, 2019 11:00am

Features / Interviews

For years, Hull’s LIFE have sat on the peripheries, but recently their socially-charged punk has started to resonate further out. We meet the band in their hometown in the year that it all went right.

September 16, 2019 12:24pm