Nearly four decades into their career Suede could have opted to rest comfortably on past laurels. They could’ve even chosen to sideline the 2022 triumphant ‘comeback’ success of Autofiction’s punk energy and decided to settle. But...
Jack Cooper abandons the long-form abstraction of previous album No Fixed Point in Space for something more grounded. Trading drift for direction, Modern Nature’s new four-piece core, newly anchored by Tara Cunningham’s shimmering dual-guitar...
Raw and ferocity are words that have always described Jehnny Beth’s music. From Savages to her solo work the painful intensity she wrings out of her music marries trauma and survival with a stark, artistic...
The warm glow of 90s indie rock pulses through Blue Reminder, yet Meg Duffy’s trademark introspection, as Hand Habits remains intact. The songs form a delicate seesaw between joy and quiet unease, exploring the exhilarating...
For an artist who has always played with reinvention; as glam-rock mystic, electronic siren, ambient poet, and synth-pop high priestess, Alison Goldfrapp has rarely sounded as personally rooted and emotionally open as she does...
Wisp’s debut full-length, If Not Winter, arrives at the height of summer like a shimmering shoegaze fantasia, something aching, bred from restless longing and mythic yearning. Natalie Lu aka Wisp, transforms from mere viral...
It would seem that Tropical Fuck Storm are primed to prove how riotous they are. The more you continue to listen to their fourth outing, the more it becomes evident that their immersive, whirlwind...
Glasgow’s Water Machine crashes onto the scene with God Park, a glorious debut that sounds like a post-punk petting zoo run by art school dropouts on a sugar high. These canny Scots churn pop...
Lucy Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, is a masterclass in atmospheric tension and release, a record that feels both ancient and contemporary, grounded and otherworldly. Building upon the ethereal foundations of her earlier EPs, Rushing and Rain’s Break,...
Six years is a long time between records, but These New Puritans – Essex-born brothers Jack and George Barnett – have always worked at their own pace, with a steely-eyed disregard for trends. Their previous album, Inside...
