Just Mustard: “We had time to experiment”
Years on from acclaimed 2018 debut “Wednesday’, the Dundalk five-piece have finally emerged from slumberous hibernation, recharged and revitalised.
27th May 2022
Interviews
Moonage Daydreams: Alfie Templeman
From a period of inner turmoil and self-questioning, Alfie Templeman’s debut “Mellow Moon’ emerges as a document of an inquisitive young mind with a world of sonic options at his fingertips.
27th May 2022
flowerovlove: “I’m trying to put out an album that will be Number One”
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
Sports Team: Let Them Entertain You
Having conquered the UK with their debut, Sports Team are looking to the rest of the world with “Gulp!’. Kicking things off with an impromptu NYC run, we join them to let the sweaty good times roll:
26th May 2022
Match Fit: Sports Team
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
Fanclubwallet: “I love fun songs, but all that was coming out was this heart-crushing stuff”
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
Tate McRae: Top of the Pops
A dancing, singing double threat with big dreams and the talent to match, Tate McRae is just getting started.
19th May 2022
Sky Rising: Porridge Radio
On third album “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’, Porridge Radio have stretched their ambitions and emotions to the extreme.
19th May 2022
Path To Peace: Sharon Van Etten
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
Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down: Sunflower Bean
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
All In Good Time: Jamie T
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
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on creating their “liberating” new album “Endless Rooms’
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
Searching For Utopia: Alison Goldfrapp
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
Go Your Own Way: Bob Vylan
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
Hatchie: “I’m still in the middle of trying to figure myself out”
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
Omar Apollo: Rocket Man
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
Prima Queen: “What’s powerful is that we are best friends and we write the songs together”
Two transatlantic best friends brought together by fate, Prima Queen are now turning heads with their warmly powerful indie-rock.
8th April 2022
Honeyglaze: “We’ve never tried to consciously fit in”
With their debut album released this month, Speedy Wunderground’s latest signings are weaving a heady, hypnotic spell.
6th April 2022
Meet Christian Alexander: Brockhampton’s favourite new artist
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
In The Name Of Love: Walt Disco
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
The Greatest Showman: Orville Peck
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
In The Studio: Nova Twins
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
Camp Cope: “I feel like I’m a channel for the universe to express something and I can’t help it”
Armed with a third album that’s the most “them” yet, Georgia Maq tells us all about ‘Running With The Hurricane’.
24th March 2022
What’s Going On With: mxmtoon
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
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.