For five years, Bombay Bicycle Club were the face of the indie mainstream. The announcement of their hiatus in 2015 left a void which the likes of Blossoms and Catfish and the Bottlemen have tried - a…
Selena Gomez’s third album delves into heartbreak, bounce-back and learning to love yourself. A smooth transition for a singer reborn from her personal struggles with mental and physical health issues…
Full of feel-good beats and infectious lyrics, English singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin releases her long-anticipated third studio album, Dear Happy this week (January 17). Having risen to fame with …
I’m at the airport in Lviv, at a cafe with a couple of macaroons and an hour and a half until my flight. The cafe is playing Michael Buble as it IS essentially Ukrainian Christmas, so I may as well li…
The Big Moon’s second album is a glimpse of hope in this dystopic present we live. That’s a bold statement someone could say. Well, let’s take a look at what’s happening in the world right now by writ…
Finally arriving with his sophomore album Fine Line, Harry Styles carries forward his talent to effortlessly pull listeners into his music, albeit with a very different sound from his One Direction-da…
“How’s the best spitter in Grime so commercial?” Stormzy enquires in the final verse of his track ‘Wiley Flow’. He raises an interesting point. How, after all, can a genre that is defined by its exis…
Once Johnny Lloyd's Indie four-piece Tribes disbanded in 2013, their demise was met with the overriding feeling that they had been the right band at the wrong time. Formed in 2010, Tribes harked ba…
Doll Skin took their last album Manic Pixie Dream Girl, an album about girl power and love, kicked it into the dirt and spat on it. It is almost like Love Is Dead And We Killed Her is the band scoldin…
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20 years since releasing The Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips have unveiled their 15th long-player. King's Mouth is a technicolour dreamscape, peppered with buoyant electronica and gliding guitars. To …
