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Few bands understand and embrace texture like Deafheaven. On this sixth full-length, the San Franciscan iconoclasts compress layers of loudness into tracks that glimmer like precious, sharp-edged gems ...

With this full-length debut, Sam Akpro builds on the reputation of his earlier releases, painting a vivid – if almost entirely grey-hued – picture of modern metropolitan malaise. ‘Evenfall’ finds the ...

As its title suggests, ‘IC-02 Bogotá’ follows on from 2018’s ‘IC-01 Hanoi’ as the next in a series of instrumentals, this one recorded in the Colombian capital, and is again a musical departure from ...

As with last year’s ‘Model’, companion EP ‘More’ largely showcases the blend of pop, alt-rock and post-punk that makes up Wallows’ trademark sound. The synth-driven ‘Not Alone’ nods to ‘80s new wave; ...

The track lands ahead of their London headline show at Kentish Town Forum this weekend.

Little Simz has offered up a second taste of what to expect from ‘Lotus’, pairing lush production and sweeping strings with a love-fuelled flow on new single ‘Free’. Originally penned as a poem, the ...

Scandipop stalwart MØ is back with another taste of what to expect from her upcoming fourth album, ‘Plæygirl’, having shared a pulsing, electronic new number ‘Keep Møving’. “[It’s] an ironic take on ...

There’s a point during ‘Sweetness’, this second album from Atlanta’s girlpuppy – specifically, where the alt-country shuffle of ‘Beaches’ steps in to shift the mood – where it makes a decent argument ...

A collaboration that’s been five years in the making, on their new album ‘Send A Prayer My Way’ Julien Baker and TORRES’ Mackenzie Scott find themselves unexpectedly reconnecting with country music — ...

“I’m looking up in awe at a mountain of shit,” begins the opening refrain of ‘Constant Noise’, in what’s perhaps the perfect metaphor for how so many of us feel right now. It’s somewhat hard to ...

A collaboration that’s been five years in the making, on their new album ‘Send A Prayer My Way’ Julien Baker and TORRES’ Mackenzie Scott find themselves unexpectedly reconnecting with country music — ...