Inspiration for Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations came from The Vaccines‘ frontman Justin Young’s time spent living in Los Angeles, when he would listen to the evocative story-telling of Don McLean’s American Pie and ponder its, ‘disillusionment with America …
Big Sigh has seen Marika Hackman taking a hands on role in all facets of its creative process; responsible for most of the instrumentation, co-direction on the videos and co-production credits with Sam Petts-Davies and Charlie Andrew.
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It took the best part of 20 years, but Andre 3000‘s New Blue Sun LP is out already after its surprise announcement earlier this week.
“I’m a writer, and not necessarily a pen and pad writer, but I construct …
“Thanks admittedly to the pressures artists are put under to be omnipresent across social they can seem to be in always your face, so much so that it doesn’t feel unreasonable to suspect …
“It’s easy to think of David Holmes in the guise of composer, scoring movies like Ocean’s Eleven or hit TV show Killing Eve, a content man in his …
Jumping to conclusions often makes for some kind of payback later.
In the case of Bar Italia, if you were to go solely by the name you might imagine the sound of indie jazz; inoffensive …
Taylor Skye of Jockstrap led the work on I<3UQTINVU, a remix version of the band’s 2022 debut album I Love You Jennifer B which was on this year’s Mercury Prize shortlist with eventual winners Ezra Collective.
“Some of these remixes are …
Kevin Abstract aimed for a, ‘Sunny Day Real Estate, Nirvana, Modest Mouse type of record’, that would, ‘hit like a rap album’, whilst working on Blanket.
It’s his first since Brockhampton entered an indefinite hiatus last year, when he said at …
Jack Tatum unveiled his new Wild Nothing record Hold back in August with guest stars very much the theme; Molly Burch and Becca Mancari can be found upon its release today, while Hatchie was front and centre on the …
“Released in late 2019, DJ Shadow’s last studio album Our Pathetic Age fell through the gaps caused by the pandemic; with touring plans for summer 2020 shelved the album, like …
Pip Blom unveiled Bobbie after recording sessions in the presence of producer Dave McCracken as spring dawned, with a special guest on its lead track, Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos lending a classical duet vibe to Is This Love?.
“The nice thing …
Produced by Jack Steadman at their own studio and The Church in London, Bombay Bicycle Club‘s My Big Day LP is packed by guest appearances from Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and Holly Humberstone – the last of …
New Music Friday has brought One More Time…, the first Blink-182 album to feature all of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker since 2011’s Neighborhoods.
The year’s touring which until now has dominated their reunion is set to conclude at this …
“Dear reader, thank you for taking the time to read it, but this review is largely pointless.”
“For The Rolling Stones are beyond reproach: an unprecedented 60+ year run, …
Metric unveiled Formentera II during their summer tour of North America with Noel Gallagher and Garbage after recording sessions at their own Main Street Studios near Toronto.
It was led off by Once, a single described by lead …
The Streets‘ new record The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light has been released with Mike Skinner’s debut feature length film of the same name, the two mediums intertwining as seamlessly as the shared name suggests.…