“When you’ve been around for over more than forty years you can probably consider yourself to have gone through most important career phases; from defining yourself, to finding an audience then, …
“For too long now, The Libertines have been behaving like a nostalgia band. Part of that is understandable given their impact back in the early part of the century, but given …
“You wouldn’t give a three-year-old a football and expect them to start crossing it like Kevin De Bruyne, would you?”
“Likewise, you wouldn’t expect a van driver to …
“Thank God Nadine Shah is back, not least because she’s one of the more likeable and interesting characters in music but also because, in the years since 2020’s Kitchen Sink, …
“It says something about the current plight of society that when Joe Talbot declared that the new Idles album is, in their own way, all about love, you had to pause …
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to do whenever they used to make ‘em, so it’s kind of fitting that Welsh four-piece Bandicoot are happily living in the …
“They say that eventually we all end up like our parents.”
“If this is true then perhaps the events of the last two years (and counting) have just been …
“It’s high time Andy Bell received the recognition he deserves.”
“With his career in music spanning over 30 years – firstly with …
“If you think about it, there’s nothing more punk – more punk as fuck, in fact – than an album full of instrumentals.”
Need to …
“It’s alright being the people’s poet, but how do you know what they want when most of the time they don’t even know it themselves?”
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“If you were going to try and throw a blanket over everything that constituted art rock these days…well, you’d need a pretty big blanket.”
“Mining the …
“Around about the same time last year, Bicep released their second album Isles in the midst of yet another lost-count lockdown.”
“Although their self-titled debut had been …
“It was then (and remains now) the greatest mission statement any band has ever had: fronted by hip shooting polemicist …
“If empathy is the wrong thing because it contains a degree of self-fulfillment, it’s difficult to see a more complicated space in music at …
“Some acts operate best under the radar or in the shadows. Much to their own (probable) frustration, mainstream appreciation is out of their reach, but the …
“At some point in their career every successful artist has had the conversation.”
“It’s the one that takes place with themselves, where they ask, ‘What am …