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Lime Garden talk Brighton, friendship, and their debut album ‘One More Thing’

Lime Garden: Perfect Harmony

Four mates whose fully-bonded friendship has allowed their band to blossom and evolve, on Lime Garden’s debut album ‘One More Thing’, no ideas are off limits.

14th February 2024

IDLES talk love, self-reflection and their fifth album ‘TANGK’

Letting Off Steam: IDLES

Featuring love songs, crooning and production credits from Nigel Godrich, ‘TANGK’ is perhaps IDLES’ biggest curveball yet. For LP5, say Joe Talbot and Mark Bowen, they just wanted “to be the sun”.

13th February 2024

Crawlers on going viral, touring the world, and their debut album ‘The Mess We Seem To Make’

After a dizzying few years of viral hits, sold out tours and huge festival spots, Liverpool’s Crawlers are finally ready to dive headlong into their ambitious, heady next chapter. It’s time to join them for the ride.

8th February 2024

Holly Macve on working with Lana Del Rey and her new EP ‘Time Is Forever’

Holly Macve: “I’ve always been scared by the passing of time, but now I’m embracing it”

With her star on the rise, we talk to Holly Macve about how she met Lana, the suburban house that inspired it all, and living in between wall-to-wall Elvis memorabilia.

2nd February 2024

The Last Dinner Party on BBC Sound of 2024, the BRITs Rising Star Award and their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’

A Feast For The Senses: The Last Dinner Party

Having cut their teeth as the capital’s worst kept word-of-mouth secret, The Last Dinner Party provided one of last year’s defining musical moments when they unveiled the gauntlet-dropping rock opera of ‘Nothing Matters’. Now, with the arrival of their debut album, they’re proving that, in 2024, maximalism reigns supreme.

31st January 2024

Tracks: Justice x Tame Impala, Jade Bird x Mura Masa, Empress Of x MUNA and more

It’s a collaboration special this week, apparently.

26th January 2024

Yard Act on their second album ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ for DIY In Deep

Yard Act: Dream Catchers

When fulfilling your ambitions fails to fill a hole, what do you do next? With widescreen second LP ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ Yard Act are unearthing the answers (or at least some of them) in familial foundations and unfettered creative freedom.

19th January 2024

Marika Hackman on anxiety, lockdown, and her reflective new album ‘Big Sigh’

Marika Hackman: “That’s so much of what I explore - the stuff that unites us, even in its ugliness”

It’s been five years and one pandemic since her last studio album, and Marika Hackman has had a lot on her mind. Reflective, immersive, and — as ever — deeply personal, ‘Big Sigh’ is the sound of an artist getting it all off her chest.

17th January 2024

Tracks: Sheer Mag, Fat Dog, The Smile and more

Tracks: Sheer Mag, Fat Dog, Jamie xx and more

Our weekly roundup of the past seven days’ biggest and best new single releases is back for 2024.

12th January 2024

Bill Ryder-Jones discusses his expansive new album ‘Iechyd Da’

Bill Ryder-Jones on expansive new album ‘Iechyd Da’: “It isn’t necessarily upbeat, but it’s a version of hope”

Featuring string sections and a kids’ choir, the Wirral songwriter’s fifth solo LP marks his most ambitious yet.

12th January 2024

The Vaccines on their forthcoming sixth album ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’

The Vaccines on sixth LP ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’: “Whatever you may think of us, I don’t think you could accuse us of running out of ideas”

Frontman Justin Young is digging deep into the confusions of adulthood on the indie stalwarts’ latest.

10th January 2024

DIY’s 2024 Reading List

As chosen by a bunch of bookworm DIY regulars, including The Last Dinner Party, Bob Vylan, Big Joanie and more.

6th January 2024

Gossip on making a comeback and their forthcoming new album ‘Real Power’

Gossip: Power Surge

Returning with a new single and album — this year’s ‘Real Power’ — that marks their first as a band since 2012, Gossip are injecting a super-charged shot of big-hearted humanity into the world once more…

5th January 2024

Gretel Hänlyn on latest EP ‘Head Of The Love Club’ for DIY’s Class of 2024

Class of 2024: Gretel Hänlyn

Pushing her witty, gothic storytelling into evermore adventurous territory with each release, the West London singer is striving for originality above all.

22nd December 2023

Heartworms on her debut EP ‘A Comforting Notion’ for DIY’s Class of 2024

Class of 2024: Heartworms

Cheltenham’s Jojo Orme is creating arresting, emotional collages using gothic post-punk soundscapes and her theatrical spoken word delivery.

21st December 2023

The Libertines get Christmassy and talk fourth album ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’

The Libertines: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

Back in action — and in truly festive spirit — for a Margate knees-up ahead of forthcoming fourth album ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’, the likely lads are writing a positive new chapter onto their wild career.

20th December 2023

Antony Szmierek on Jools Holland and his recent EP ‘Seasoning’ for DIY’s Class of 2024

Class of 2024: Antony Szmierek

Armed with spoken word songs that celebrate the beauty in the everyday, the Manchester poet is ticking off career milestones seemingly by the minute.

20th December 2023

DIY’s Essential New Christmas Tracks

If you just can’t handle any more Michael Bublé, never fear — we’ve got you covered.

19th December 2023

Picture Parlour on their breakout single ‘Norwegian Wood’ and industry plant accusations for DIY’s Class of 2024

Class of 2024: Picture Parlour

Crashing into life with debut single ‘Norwegian Wood’ back in the peak of summer, Picture Parlour have had a rollercoaster 2023 full of hype-ridden highs and troll-fuelled troubles. Emerging with their heads more firmly in the game than ever, there’s little that can stop them now.

19th December 2023