Interview
METZ: “I don’t think you ever want to walk the same path over and over”
We catch up with the Canadian noiseniks’ drummer Hayden Menzies on the ease of working with longtime pals and pushing punk parameters.
23rd April 2024, 12:30pm
Interview
We catch up with the Canadian noiseniks’ drummer Hayden Menzies on the ease of working with longtime pals and pushing punk parameters.
23rd April 2024, 12:30pm
BODEGA’s collective finger remains on the pulse, as they continue to cut their targets down to size.
10th April 2024, 8:00am
The sound of an artist beginning to sink cosily into her own skin, and enjoying herself enormously in the process.
10th April 2024, 8:00am
By opening up their songwriting process, the band have managed to carve out an even more singular sound.
27th March 2024, 8:00am
Interview
Over the course of six albums, Everything Everything have confirmed their position as art-rock’s premier futurists. However for their seventh trick, ‘Mountainhead’ sees the band retreating from the technological precipice and seeking (relative) simplicity.
7th March 2024, 4:00pm
The band appear to have tapped into a rich new vein of songwriting form.
6th March 2024, 8:00am
They continue to plough their strange pop furrow with aplomb.
21st February 2024, 8:00am
A stirring reminder of her singular ability as a guitarist and songwriter.
21st February 2024, 7:52am
There is plenty to like here - but there’s a sense of creative inertia that means it’s a difficult record to truly love.
21st February 2024, 7:50am
By the end of this opening instalment, Wings of Desire have demonstrated plenty of promise. Now to go forward and build upon it.
6th December 2023, 8:00am
Unsurprisingly, the beats on ‘Quaranta’ match the introspective lyrical tone.
17th November 2023, 12:00pm
Interview
During the making of new album ‘Little Rope’, a personal tragedy would floor Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker. Through the bonds of friendship and creativity, however, they channelled it into a record of ultimate catharsis.
13th November 2023, 1:00pm
‘God Games’, like its predecessors, has proved worth the wait.
25th October 2023, 8:00am
It has a sense of drama and occasion to it.
11th October 2023, 8:00am
A record unafraid to run off in different directions.
27th September 2023, 7:58am
The mood is subdued but not downcast, just as was the case on its predecessor.
20th September 2023, 8:00am
‘End of the Day’ feels like a long, slow goodbye to her old life; elegant and, given the context, elegiac.
6th September 2023, 7:51am
It very much gives off the sense that the slower gestations lead to the richest rewards.
30th August 2023, 7:53am
A frontwoman with limitless charisma.
23rd August 2023, 7:57am
Interview
Since breaking through with debut ‘HEAVY METAL’, Paris Texas have made themselves uncategorisable. On debut LP ‘MID AIR’, they’re doubling down on their stance and embracing a world of limitless possibility.
16th August 2023, 3:30pm
If anything, it feels like a return to their roots.
9th August 2023, 8:00am
Interview
After more than a decade fronting Best Coast, ‘Natural Disaster’ is Bethany Cosentino’s first venture out under her own name: an honest, vulnerable window into an artist renewed.
26th July 2023, 3:53pm
Live Review
5th July 2023, 12:11pm
It’ll likely take some time to fully unravel, but on the surface this looks like a daring return.
5th July 2023, 7:56am
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.