Since its inception in 1992, Built to Spill founder Doug Martsch intended his beloved band to be a collaborative project, an ever-evolving group of incredible musicians making music and playing live together. “I wanted to switch the lineup for many reasons. Each time we finish a record I want the next one to sound totally… Read more »
Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, soundtracks, techno, installations and experimental rock. Her music has been performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to BBC Last Night of the Proms… Read more »
With widespread support throughout the press landscape, (DIY, So Young, Brooklyn Vegan, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash, The Independent, Rough Trade, Gigwise), accompanying lead singles ‘Services’, ‘Pretty’ and ‘Checking Out’, as well as prestigious BBC Radio 6 Music B-list and C-list playlist spots, the group’s thrilling development has certainly gathered considerable momentum in recent… Read more »
You will be transported into an ethereal trance by her voice alone. sogumm writes more songs than any other artist, but none fall short of expectations. Her soulful tracks on SoundCloud first gained her an audience, and since then she has been on top of artists’ collaboration wish lists to be featured in their songs… Read more »
Three—four, if you count the one pulling the strings—inquisitive individuals that came together by way of fate’s ties to the universe (and, “time travel”, if you ask them discreetly), UNIVERSITY are a band diving into all of life’s existentialism. An exploration of adolescence, self-identity and slight mania, their upcoming music is “like getting punched in… Read more »
TTRRUUCES is the alternative psych pop project masterminded by Jules Apollinaire and Natalie Findlay. After meeting in an east London coffee shop, the pair began making music and collaborated on multiple projects together before finally deciding to form their own band in 2019. Their love of 60s and 70s rock n roll, modern pop and… Read more »
Conceived in a cabin overlooking the Delaware River in upstate New York, Son Little’s latest album, Like Neptune, trades in the existential dread permeating previous work for unbridled joy and self-acceptance. In this verdant space of freedom, Son Little transmutes the chronic pain of self-doubt into a beautiful opus about overcoming generational trauma, decorating the… Read more »
Flyte is the project of English songwriters Will Taylor and Nick Hill. The pair met at secondary school, eventually settling in Hackney, London. Taylor’s parents were both English teachers and inevitably, various literary influences trickled into the duo’s music- the band taking it’s name from Sebastian Flyte of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
It’s that unmistakable Bad Suns sound – dreamy ’80s synthesizers flanked by Stratocasters through cranked Vox amps, pulsing synths, and palpable rhythmic energy – that endeared listeners to the band in the first place, and their fourth LP, APOCALYPSE WHENEVER, uses that musical foundation as the jumping-off point for their next evolution.