Perhaps I’ve turned soft for some good rootsy country blues after being dazzled and a bit blinded by Brandon Flowers’ recent ...

Her eighth album, Popstar, puts a major label’s name back on the record; this time Atlantic. It is her first proper major-label album since Joyride. And the title, rather than dodging that, walks ...

Lauren Spear (aka Le Ren) is one of these talents, someone whose music sounds so neat, effortless, and enduring, that its ...

It wasn’t so much that she eschewed modernity – during interviews she has an influencer-like inclination toward the words ...

It has been a cracking decade for Julia Jacklin – well, at least with music critics and other musicians. Having received rave ...

Almost exactly three years ago, I wrote a piece about the burgeoning musical art movement deemed Futurismus, and argued that these bands – Mandy, Indiana; Model/Actriz; Naked Lungs; Gilla Band – were ...

Since she almost quietly entered the music scene with her debut album Philharmonics in 2010, Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel (if she really fits into that category) has been garnering critical ...

Everyone is reading “Estrus” as a synonym for horny, but it is also the part of the cycle when an animal can conceive, and the record knows it.

There’s not many occasions of a single work becoming such a monolith that it retroactively lifts an obscure band into mainstream recognition. Usually, cult albums remain just that: a small jewel that ...

Rebecca Black has been trying to do the impossible over the past decade and a half: recognise the importance of her genesis moment that propelled her to fame while also trying to move on from it. And ...

It would have been too bitter, too evidently ironic if Chat Pile had released Who Loves The Sun one week after its official release date. Their third album (or fourth, depending how you count) would ...

There’s one particular moment from many years ago that I can never quite get out of my head: during a fantastic Berlin show, Interpol‘s frontman Paul Banks introduced the entire band, by name – except ...