It seems like just yesterday we had Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner on the cover of Issue 8 of our printed publication. It wasn't, of course. It was, in fact, some (and somehow) almost four years ago, the only silver lining of such swift passing of time
A little while back I wrote about discovering the music of Talons' at one of those moments where I really needed it. I was away on my own in a foreign country, all that time for people watching and wandering, smelling new smells, seeing different types of light. The
Anna B Savage is a big fan, it seems, of early-year album releases. Her debut album, A Common Turn, was released in January of 2021, its follow-up arrived in February of 2023, and she continues the pattern with You and i are Earth, the forthcoming ten-song set which will greet
We've shouted about Miya Follick for a number of years, always expecting the LA-based artist to fully breakthrough to the mainstream. Unusual, unique, and always teeming with star quality, Follick has made good on the promise shown on 2015's debut release and looks set to reach
So much of the music that Hamilton Leithauser has released via his band, The Walkmen, tends to come alive, or find a greater sense of spirit at this time of the year. Shuffling through city streets, fists stuffed in pockets, the wind ripping through your bones. Apt, then, that Leithauser
There's so much to the incredible, incredibly sprawling new TRA И Ƨ A compilation that we'll leave it to the organisation who pieced it together to tell the full story: Storied activist and music production non-profit Red Hot presents its latest project, TRAИƧA out November 22nd.
Though he arrives with a new name, Fran O'Hanlon may well sound familiar to those who knew him via his previous project, Ajimal. An considered extension of all that came before, Mezanmi released a brand new album just a couple of weeks ago and it's full
I was lucky to travel to a few different countries this year, and on each trip I got lost, headphones in and far from home, in Beirut's album from last year - having not listened to Zach Condon's project for a good few years. Hadsel, a
Chances are, if you reference a tree in your song title then you'll have my unadorned attention before I've heard a single note. That being said, I was already deep in the world of Emily Hines by the time 'Cedar On The River' tenderly
It's been a full 15 years since Local Natives emerged with their colourful, impassioned breed of indie rock, their 2009 debut album Gorilla Manor still one of the most cherished LPs from that fruitful period of time. Still going strong all these years on, the band have remained
Nadia Reid's music holds such a special place in the soundtrack of my life, her 2017 Preservation LP arriving in just the right form and feel to become inextricably bound to a strange and difficult and formative year. Her voice has that ability, a kind of gripping nature,
You only need to look at the two labels that have joined forces to welcome new music from Joni into the world, to capture a sense of the warm resonance, emotive care that ripples through her music. A brand new song released today, 'Avalanches' comes ribbon-bowed by the