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Fontaines D.C. Have Made Their Darkest Album Yet, and It’s the Easiest to Love
It’s strange that Fontaines D.C.’s most accessible album yet is their darkest. Maybe that says more about the world.
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Is Bunny the album that blasts Willie J Healey into that much-deserved spotlight?
It’s been a long burning fuse leading up to the dynamite you’ll soon know as Bunny . Tiger Woods , the introductory track of the album, was released on 29th July last year. Somewhat a reflection of Willie J. Healey’s ten years in the game; eager to share, but in no rush for dead
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Track Premiere: (Song For A) Wasted Land - You Said Strange
Cigarettes, the main character of You Said Strange’s new music video premiered here today for (Song For A) Wasted Land. A picture of endless consumption yet a simple source of comfort in a story of a disaster. However, (Song For A) Wasted Land is a strangely optimistic depiction
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Loyle Carner: hugo review – a masterpiece pushing the harsh realities of British society
‘’I told the black man he didn't understand, I reached the white man he didn't take my hand’’ raps Loyle Carner on the second single, Nobody Knows (Ladas Road), released on his new album hugo . The openness to explore his personal experiences on issues such as race, identity, an
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Harry Styles: Harry's House album review
“‘Cause once you go without it, nothing else will do”: the collective thought of Styles' fans for the past 890 days since Harry’s album release, Fine Line. Since leaving One Direction, the Millennial fashion and music icon has proved himself as a solo musical talent across a span
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New music: Just Mustard - Still
Your head immediately spins from the whirring noise, but if you stick around for long enough, the sting of perhaps the most beautiful yet terrifying bass note knocks you straight. If it weren’t for the vocals, you’d have thought you’d just walked into your local drug lord's front
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Dylan John Thomas shares new track 'Feel the Fire' to ignite big future.
Comparing young Dylan John Thomas to The View sounds like a cheap cop out, but there are similarities beyond the accent. His new single Feel the Fire is overflowing with that bouncy energy that battles its way into the songs of emerging Scottish artists. Although I’ve not had th
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Jungle – ‘Loving In Stereo’ review: try to feel gloomy after listening to this. I dare you.
So, I’ve been sitting on Jungle's new album, Loving In Stereo, and it’s out tomorrow right now. Not because I’m a lazy bastard who’s been procrastinating until the night before, as much as it may look like it, but because it’s been difficult to pinpoint certain aspects of it. I’l
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New music: nudista - Confess
I know it's difficult to keep up with our new music recommendations, but here's a nice one for you. Confess. Confess was penned by Pilar Matji Cabello and Robbie Carman ( nudista ) just before the pandemic escalated, but has rung just as true throughout it. The song’s about comin
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Blanketman release their debut EP - National Trust. And a debate about water quality.
I don’t like the taste of the water in the city . A line I can strongly relate to. I was once absolutely hammered on a London bus ranting to my ex girlfriend about how the water is genuinely killing me, to which a man shouted at me as he jumped off at his stop, “fuck off back up
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New music: deep tan - deepfake
Here, I’ve a cool new band for you. They’ve got a new single out called deepfake. Deepfakes. When the viral video created by Jordan Peele of Obama surfaced in 2018, fear cloaked the internet of the potential political implications. Now, in 2020, it’s come to light that 96% of de
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Fashionably late once again, here's our review of Fontaines D.C's album A Hero's Death, released in, erm, July of this year
A Hero's Death is the second release from post-punk five piece Fontaines DC. Here's what we made of the new album, a mere 3 months late.
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Goat Girl are back *evil laugh*
It’s rare that I come across a track like this. After such a lull in music, attitude and general fucking life, it’s thrilling to be reminded by the sloppy kiss of a spacey guitar that not everything is uninspired at the moment. This track alone has served an expected fist beneath
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Review: A. Swayze & The Ghosts - Paid Salvation
It kicks off frighteningly similar to Franz Ferdinand. Did I consider switching it off? Nearly. Am I glad I didn’t? Absolutely. There are no half-arsed, smug vocals in here, just a delightfully refreshing record that hones in on any lazy, unimaginative thoughts of yours and boots
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LOUD NOISES: A review of Ultra Mono by IDLES
Here: a lovely new review. Don't say we never treat you.
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The Cat Empire - Songs you need on your festival/party playlist
Now then! After a ridiculous amount of celebrating Leeds United's promotion back to the big time (well aware this isn’t popular among anybody outside of Leeds) and a trip away to Newquay with the No Taste gang, I’m just about physically and mentally recovered enough to bring you
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Willie J Healey - Twin Heavy review: a bright album that already sounds like it's stood the test of time.
I don’t know what happens. Every time I sit down to write a review of an album with happy guitars in, all I can think of is summer. Does that make me underqualified and shit? Absolutely, but here, you listen to the tories soo… Anyway, let’s get the reason you came, Willie J Heale
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A review of Silverbacks debut album, Fad
Silverbacks are set to release their debut album on 17th July via Central Tones after a slow stream of singles on Soundcloud dating back to 2015. It’s this laidback approach that births the creativeness and holds the resilience of the band. They’re able to take a step back and n
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Shut up and read this review of Viscerals by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
These boys are drag racing the Devil through hell.
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Brave EP - Fran Lobo
Hello and welcome! It’s my pleasure to bring you a review of Fran Lobo 's new EP, Brave. Fran Lobo is a singer-songwriter and producer from North-East London, known for her dark powerful vocals and hypnotic sounds, this EP is no let up. Straight in with Give Me Something and we’r
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Wesley Gonzalez, Appalling Human: A review
Synth heavy, summer filled tracks have a certain melancholy tagged to them by default this year. Something feels inherently wrong about sitting on my own listening to cheery saxophones, funky backing guitars and sliding bass while I’m sat in the garden bar (shed) on an old flower
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Hanni El Khatib's new album FLIGHT is a whooole bag of tricks
Reinventing yourself as an artist is tough. Constant comparisons to prior works, crowds clamouring for the hits, pressures from labels. And yet, here is one who, with his latest album FLIGHT, has achieved this and more. Blues-punk wordsmith Hanni El Khatib’s new creation is unlik
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An introspective return for Marlin's Dreaming with Quotidian
My Airpods broke... I’ve escaped back up North to the family home for lockdown, so the dynamics of listening to music have changed. Gone of the days where I can listen to music laid in bed without my little brother asking if I want a fight. It’s not all bad, though, there’s a ha