Los Bitchos is back and better than ever! Since the launch of their much-loved debut album, ‘Let the Festivities Begin,’ with City Slang in February 2022, the London-based, pan-continental female instrumental four-piece has captivated audiences worldwide. They’ve performed over 200 shows, including legendary appearances at Glastonbury, and supporting tours with King Gizzard, and a legendary… Read more »
Pure Violet is a chase for a fleeting feeling: the moodiness of a nighttime drive, the fervor of being an aimless teenager and hearing an iconic band for the first time, the escapism of a realistic dream. These sensations can’t always be described or quantified, but they can be felt and sometimes, they can be… Read more »
Georgia is seeking a thrill. Her latest Mercury Mercury Prize shortlisted album, Seeking Thrills, is a musically daring story of hedonism, self-discovery, and above all, the transcendental power of the dancefloor. The North West Londoner has been on a long, dazzling journey since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album in 2015. Her first… Read more »
Change is perhaps the biggest challenge a band can face. Everyone loves the out-of-nowhere debut or is impressed when a band avoids the sophomore slump, but when real longevity is achieved musicians often find themselves feeling less and less like the people they were on their early records. For some bands this impending need for… Read more »
For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios and includes contributions from H. Hawkline, Seb Rochford, Gavin Fitzjohn, John and Hopey Parish… Read more »
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. This is unmistakably… Read more »
Malcolm Middleton is back, again, with his seven-hundredth studio album BANANAS, this time on the much beloved TRIASSIC TUSK RECORDS. The guitarist and songwriter is best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in Scottish rock legends ARAB STRAP, as well as for his string of DPR$$N-CORE smash hit singles “Fuck It, I Love You”,… Read more »
Tropical Fuck Storm is Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin of The Drones joining forces with Lauren Hammel and Erica Dunn to make some extraordinarily abrasive yet undeniably catchy candy-coated psychedelic Aussie sludge punk on their debut album A Laughing Death In Meatspace. In an age of underlying dread, too few albums have really nailed that queasy feeling… Read more »