South Londoner Wu-Lu’s stunning new album contains post-genre war dubs that speak directly to these richly troubled times. The twelve simmering tracks from the producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist are made of depth-charged post-punk, thrashed-up skate-park screamo, and the gauzy hip hop that Knwxledge might make if he’d got lost round the back of The Windmill… Read more »

Brevity has often been the soul of Magnetic Fields composer Stephin Merritt’s wit. Though his most celebrated work—the 1999 milestone 69 Love Songs, the more recent 50 Song Memoir—has been epic in conceptual scope, the individual pieces of each have most often been beautifully crafted, slyly funny miniatures. The Magnetic Fields most recent album, Quickies,… Read more »

Two Guys, One Band.

The latest album from Australian singer/songwriter Grace Cummings, Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. In a departure from the self-produced approach of her 2019 debut Refuge Cove and its 2022 follow-up Storm Queen—the Melbourne-based artist worked with producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price) and dreamed up a lavishly orchestrated sound that… Read more »

Falle Nioke is a singer and percussionist from Guinea, now based in Margate, UK. He sings in English, French, Susu, Fulani, Malinke and his mother tongue, Coniagui. He plays a range of cultural African instruments to accompany his voice (Gongoma, Bolon, Cassi). Since arriving in the UK two years ago he has been working with… Read more »

The first thing people notice about Kathleen, it’s unavoidable in fact, is her voice. It’s rare you find a voice so unique, so bold, that it’s strange to believe Kathleen was a very private singer until her late teens. As confidence grew she began to sing more publicly and with that developed an interest in… Read more »

Moving to London 9 years ago from her hometown of Roskilde in Denmark – Dahlstrom has made a significant name for herself in those years for her warm, jazz-tinged, soulful R&B. This May she is release her long-awaited debut full-length album, Like Sand.

Five young Glaswegian proletariats evolve techno by performing wildly nrg-etic full live band rave anthems through the lens of stadium-curious post-punk. Correspondingly, VLURE (pronounced like the velvet-adjacent fabric) are equally at home hosting their own underground Euphoria parties, as they are on stage at Glasto. NME cites their gigs as, “offering an emotional outlet that… Read more »

Yard Act -‘Where’s My Utopia?’ What do you do when everything you’ve ever wanted suddenly lands in your lap, but the questions still keep on coming? Since first steering their golden Rover into swift public acclaim back in 2020, Leeds quartet Yard Act have become one of the great indie success stories of the decade… Read more »

Known for his rock-and-roll inspired solo albums, as well as his contributions to internet funk sensation Vulfpeck, Katzman has had this feeling bubbling in the recesses of his mind for some time now, weaving its way through his songwriting process and onto his recordings. The feeling itself is multi-dimensional: it’s a subtle sarcasm, but not… Read more »