A little more cohesion wouldn’t have gone amiss.Label: Third Man ‘Raspberry Moon’ is a somewhat modest follow-up to Hotline TNT ’s 2023 breakout debut ‘Cartwheel’, a self-reinvention of sorts: where ...

Alex Rigotti on DIY.Jazmin Bean: Survivor Unbeknownst to the legion of fans who’ve watched Jazmin Bean’s rise to cult stardom, the singer’s life for almost a decade has been one filled with ...

The biggest and best new album reviews.A vital, exhilarating offering, sure to catapult them further out of the hardcore scene and ever closer to mainstream musical lore.

Other artists confirmed to appear today include Joy (Anonymous), NewDad, Joe Goddard (Live), MS Paint, Monobloc, Dove Ellis and Nick Ward, who’ll all be taking to stages across Victoria Park when ...

Sprints are back! The band have announced that they will be releasing their second album, ‘All That Is Over’ on 26th September via City Slang. Alongside the album announcement the band have dropped a ...

As far as innovation goes, El Bronx III is a strange affair. On the one hand it’s a novel approach to a side project, eschewing the tradition of acoustic versions of the same songs. But, with three ...

Label: Roadrunner Few bands understand and embrace texture like Deafheaven. On this sixth full-length, the San Franciscan iconoclasts compress layers of loudness into tracks that glimmer like precious ...

If a festival can open with Weyes Blood and immediately follow her with Anna Calvi then they’re probably boasting the sort of roster that competitors can only stare at open-jawed with envy. A brief ...

Headspinning, full-throttle, and with absolutely no breaks, UNIVERSITY launch headfirst into a symphony of clashing sounds and melodies on debut record, ‘McCartney, It’ll Be OK’. Post-punk in places, ...

Michael Kiwanuka: Changing Seasons Since the release of 2019 third album ‘KIWANUKA’, its eponymous author has won the Mercury Prize, become a father twice over and wrangled a new sense of ...

Label: AWAL On last year’s debut ‘If My Wife New I’d Be Dead’, CMAT swung open the doors to her bold, brilliant world via a set of sparkling heart-on-sleeve anthems, and a good dose of pop culture ...

Label: XL It would be impossible to talk about The Smile without comparison to Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s other band, but ‘Wall of Eyes’ leans less on Radiohead and more on the prolific work ...