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
From The Magazine
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
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.
13th 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
Gently Tender: “Our intention is to make ourselves feel emotional”
We chat to Sam Fryer and Adam Brown ahead of the release of their debut LP ‘Take Hold Of Your Promise!’
25th August 2022
Superorganism: “Our band is an exploration of the grey area”
We chat to Orono and Harry following the release of ‘World Wide Pop’.
1st August 2022
Maggie Rogers: Can You Feel It At All?
The last three years left Maggie Rogers hungry for feeling, connection and humanity. Her new album ‘Surrender’ is a kicking, screaming call to arms that embraces being alive.
29th July 2022
Enumclaw: “We’re making music that people can see themselves in”
The wildly ambitious Washington quartet aiming to shake up the grunge-rock landscape with a scintillating combination of bangers and bravado.
27th July 2022
Welcome To The Underworld: Viagra Boys
Conjuring up a freakish cast of sordid specimens for third album ‘Cave World’, Viagra Boys are putting an injection of surreal humour back into punk.
22nd July 2022
Rise & Shine: Katy J Pearson
On second album ‘Sound of the Morning’, Katy J Pearson is shedding ill-fitting genre tags and simply aiming to make beautiful, strong songs. Mission emphatically accomplished.
18th July 2022
Willow Kayne: “If I can change the direction that pop can be that’s what success sounds like”
Creating a multi-sensory, ‘90s-soaked world, Willow Kayne’s already bagged an Ivor Novello and is only aiming higher from here.
7th July 2022
Feeling The Fantasy: Mabel
Based around the highs and lows of one big party, Mabel’s forthcoming second LP ‘About Last Night’ started as fantastical escapism but wound up connecting the singer to her past.
29th June 2022
MUNA: Express Yourself
Having switched camps from a major label to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory and with a new self-titled LP in tow, MUNA are releasing their most confident outpouring to date.
23rd June 2022
Momma: “We need to be Jack Black’s best friend”
LA bezzies channelling “90s alt-rock into a heart-on-sleeve yet tongue-in-cheek new form.
20th June 2022
No Small Feelings: Soccer Mommy
On new album “Sometimes, Forever’, Soccer Mommy is leaning into the darkness and the light in equal measure.
20th June 2022
Choose Life: Foals
Bunkering down from the chaos to make an album full of light, “Life Is Yours’ was written as a rousing statement of hope. Back with thousands of fans once more, Foals are ready to reap its rewards.
15th June 2022
No Holds Barred: Nova Twins
Carving out a singular space in the rock landscape, Amy Love and Georgia South have resolutely done it their way. Now, with the advent of Nova Twins’ “Supernova’, their potential feels limitless.
14th June 2022
Cassyette: “I’ve been on such a journey musically but it always started with rock music”
Meet the Essex singer whose genre-blending vision is turning heads across the rock world.
13th June 2022
Once In A Blue Moon: Moonchild Sanelly
South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly is a walking, talking message of sexual liberation and female empowerment. With new album “Phases’, she’s trying to change the world, one female orgasm at a time.
10th June 2022
New Dawns: mxmtoon
Ditching the ukulele in favour of a broader, more diverse palette, mxmtoon is expanding both sonically and personally on second LP “rising’.
8th June 2022
Vibe Check: Sigrid
Returning with second album “How To Let Go’, Sigrid is chomping at the bit to pick up where her debut left off and take her rightful place back on the stage.
8th June 2022
Calm Within The Storm: Working Men’s Club
Exorcising his demons via the agitated wares of second album ‘Fear Fear’, Working Men’s Club’s Syd Minsky-Sargeant is learning how to release life’s pressure valve.
7th June 2022
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