Image by Uncredited New single “Live Again” features Halo Maud on vocals and follows the recently released “No Reason”, plucked from the 10th Chemical Brothers album due out later this year. In addition to the new single. They have also announced details of their first official book “Live Again” is out now. The Chemical Brothers’ […]
Choi Yena and (G)I-DLE’s Yuqi have dropped the music video for “Hate Rodrigo”. It’s a bubblegum pop peach with neon-styling and acts as an homage, filled with references to Olivia Rodrigo and her music – watch it below.
Visual artist and producer Luke Temple announces his new album, Be Good The Crazy Boys, out November 10th on Western Vinyl, and presents its lead single, “All I Can Do.“ Until now, Art Feynman has strictly been a solo act, a way for Temple to explore surprising sonic landscapes without the burdens of identity. Slightly twisted takes […]
Wye Oak, the beloved Baltimore duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, release “Every Day Like the Last” via Merge Records. The songs that comprise the collection, which includes brand-new songs and previously released singles, were made during a period when Wye Oak was in flux, after a decade-plus of steadily releasing albums and touring between 2019 and 2023. Sonically, […]
Released: June 30th 2023 3.5/5 We can all reflect on life’s ability to throw us curveballs, but few could capture these quite so accurately in song as Amber Bain, The Japanese House when dissecting her own circuitous stories, endings, beginnings and pulling on their threads. Old relationships “Spot Dog”, being in a throuple “Friends”, an […]
Image by Sophie Forster We’ve just begun a short heatwave in the UK when I manage to put faces to names and connect with Slobo & Azere via Zoom. They look suitably fresh and summery, Owen (Slobo) in a baking attic room in Leeds and Rowan (Azere) in bloody Kenya, which turns out isn’t as […]
Released: June 30th 2023 4/5 Second album dilemma. Repeat or change things up? Add in a new label, Rock Action, and expectations from all quarters, not least from the band themselves and things could all go, well, weird. Thankfully Hull’s BDRMM (Bedroom) manage to augment the same dreamy melancholy and ambient introspection that made their […]
Released: June 9th 2023 3.5/5 Having shut the door on Youth Lagoon in 2016 promoting a brand-new album under that name, “Heaven Is A Junkyard”, is not what Trevor Powers anticipated. However, having always written from the perspective of things ‘far away’ it took returning home to Idaho, severe illness and the creation of some […]
Released: June 9th 2023 5/5 Since the very beginning Chris has written around the expression of self, questioned and employed characters as costumes or masks. Part Bowie, Prince or Madonna, shifting between alpha to submissive, bravado and vulnerability. The story telling, however fantastic, has always been an inherently personal exploration. “Paranoïa, Angels, True Love” takes […]
3.5/5 Released: June 2nd 2023 “Lucky For You” kicks off, with a stuttering drum shuffle, guitar riffing and raw vocals as Alicia Bognanno sets an immediate confessional course. Espousing how she wants things to go back to how they used to be, throwing out a line like “I’ll never get fucked up again, I’m done” […]
