The opening words to this fourth album from Loyle Carner are “beautiful accidents”, and it’s a line that can serve as a metaphor for the record as a whole. Here, we find the artist - now 11 years in - ...

These New Puritans’ London studio is situated by both a giant industrial waste processing plant and several Evangelical churches, and this physical space finds itself manifested in sonic form on the ...

The winners of The Ivors have been announced! The awards, which celebrate this year’s best achievements in songwriting and screen composition, have revealed that iconic artists such as Charli xcx, ...

For anyone unfamiliar with House of Protection, be assured that when it comes to metal, you’re in safe hands. Made up of longtime friends Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta - who have jointly played in ...

Rico Nasty, a pioneer of contemporary rage-rap, is “putting her flag on the moon,” so says press material. Indeed, on third record, ‘LETHAL’, there’s a concentration of craft that reaffirms her stake ...

For the past two decades, Tunde Adebimpe’s voice has been synonymous with the shapeshifting sound of TV on the Radio, a band with a track record for being a complex instrument of gritty emotion, ...

Having expanded to a four-piece since the release of 2023 EP ‘Who I Am’, with ‘Anything For You’ Grandmas House continue to bolster the rising reputation of both themselves and the fertile Bristol ...

The Los Angeles-based band’s first new material since 2021 second album ‘Married’, the five-track ‘Crave’ is as much a welcome reminder of the power of thrashing guitars and guttural vocal roars to ...

Much like a certain infamous condiment, we imagine that the new album from Californian hardcore outfit Scowl is likely to stir up some fairly extreme opinions. While the Santa Cruz quintet firmly put ...

‘Death Hilarious’ is a battle-ready hammer throw of a fifth album from Pigs x7. Lifting off with G-force rocket speed, opener ‘Blockade’ is a searing tornado of sludgy space rock, Matthew Baty’s Lemmy ...

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 ...

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; ...