Interviews

Architects: Fighting With Shadows

Over the last sixteen years, Architects have faced more than their fair share of hardship; on their tenth album, they’re diving headfirst into the darkness and pushing to evolve even further.

20th October 2022

Big Big Love: The Big Moon

Taking third album ‘Here Is Everything’ out on the road, we join The Big Moon for a rollercoaster of new motherhood, missing gear and much more besides.

19th October 2022

Independent Woman: Tove Lo

Tove Lo fills us in on everything “Dirt Femme’ and beyond.

18th October 2022

Crack Cloud: The Bright Side of Life

Having explored the depths of darkness on debut album “Pain Olympics’, the Vancouver collective tell us about looking at things from a sunnier angle on its fantastic follow-up, “Tough Baby’.

17th October 2022

Home & Away: Alvvays

After five years away, Alvvays’ third album “Blue Rev’ speaks to the past, present and future of a band making their most ambitious music yet.

17th October 2022

The Circle of Life: Sorry

Staring down the big questions and tackling existentialism in their own idiosyncratic way, “Anywhere But Here’ is showing the world a new, evolved Sorry.

14th October 2022

Blaze Of Glory: Mykki Blanco

Mykki Blanco has spent a career creating their own path and leading by innovative example. On indie-leaning new LP “Stay Close to Music’, they’re offering up yet more surprises.

14th October 2022

Dublin’s Gilla Band (fka Girl Band) have never been ones to pander. On “Most Normal’, they’re embracing that ethos fully with an art-for-art’s-sake record that stretches from the silly to the sublime.

12th October 2022

Stay Positive: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Returning with their first album in nearly a decade, “Cool It Down’ is here to remind the world that no one does it quite like Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

10th October 2022

FLOHIO: Heart & Soul

South London rapper FLOHIO’s debut “Out of Heart’ may have been a long time coming, but its emotive, progressive wares show an artist more than worth the wait.

5th October 2022

Whaddya Know, Djo?

Joe Keery’s already won the hearts of the world on screen, and with second album ‘DECIDE’, his alter-ego Djo is aiming to do the same on the musical stage.

28th September 2022

Pretty Sick: “This album doesn’t try to hide anything”

Channelling the grizzled catharsis of “90s grunge, Sabrina Fuentes and her band have crossed the Atlantic and come out fighting.

27th September 2022

Channel Tres: Just Can’t Get Enough

Creating his own self-described niche of Compton house, Channel Tres is dancing all the way to the top.

26th September 2022

piri & tommy: “It sounded like Fleetwood Mac house!”

Partners in and out of music, the Manchester pair’s intrinsic bond is taking them from viral newcomers to UK dance’s next big hope.

23rd September 2022

THE MURDER CAPITAL PREVIEW NEW ALBUM ‘GIGI’S RECOVERY’ AT INTIMATE LONDON GIG

Speaking to DIY earlier in the day, frontman James McGovern discusses the band’s follow-up to 2019 debut “When I Have Fears’.

23rd September 2022

Something Like Happiness: Alex G

Nine albums in and, on “God Save The Animals’, Alex G is still treading his own path. This time however, he’s letting a few more people in on the journey too.

22nd September 2022

Nuha Ruby Ra: “There was high energy [in Germany]”

Ahead of her set at Reeperbahn Festival this weekend, we catch up with the East London avant-punk artist.

20th September 2022

Death Cab For Cutie: “I want us to be the best version of what we are”

Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard contemplates the pandemic fuelled existentialism in the band’s tenth album, ‘Asphalt Meadows’.

17th September 2022

Fletcher: “I’m not as scared as I used to be”

We spoke to the New Jersey pop sensation on the eve of her debut album’s release.

16th September 2022

Strange Magic: Jockstrap

‘I Love You Jennifer B’ is an album of weirdness and whimsy, of technical prowess and nostalgic escapism. At its core sit Jockstrap: two musicians tinkering around in their own curious playground.

15th September 2022

Noughties But Nice: Mura Masa

Simultaneously packed with nostalgia and a modern dream cast of collaborators, “demon time’ finds Mura Masa concocting a time-spanning party for the ages.

14th September 2022

Seeking Beauty: Oliver Sim

This month’s solo debut “Hideous Bastard’ finds The xx’s Oliver Sim opening up and letting the world in on his most personal truths.

13th September 2022

Back In The Race: Wunderhorse

After the combustion of his teenage band Dead Pretties, Jacob Slater did some much-needed reevaluating. From it came Wunderhorse, and a debut album — “Cub’ — that stares into a far brighter future.