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in MusicI Feel Safe With You, Trash: of Montreal’s Overlooked Magnum Opus
Released a few months ago in March 2021, I Feel Safe With You, Trash is of Montreal’s 17th album (!!!). Kevin Barnes calls it a ‘double album’ but clocking in at just over one hour, it’s not much longer than most of their previous releases. The album was written and recorded during the Great COVID […] More
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Beyond the Screen #2: Loki’s Variant is a Crisis for the Establishment
In a new weekly column called Beyond the Screen, author A. J. Black unpacks what we’re all discussing from the world of cinema and television. This time, he consider’s Marvel’s Loki two episodes in and what it might be saying about order and chaos… There was a moment watching Loki’s second episode where he was described […] More
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The Clockworks: New Music to Listen Out for in 2021
What we’re really looking forward to in 2021 are new records from some of the best bands around right now. Here, Julia Mason talks to the punk four-piece, The Clockworks whose new music you need to listen out for in 2021. Being an independent musician was hard even before COVID-19 brought the world to a […] More
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PYNKIE: #37 — Wistful and Winning Indie Rock
The sophomore album from New York indie rock outfit PYNKIE, #37 has the lush and wistful warmth of a summer day turning autumnal at its close. Woozing synth chords, chirpy drums and lackadaisical guitar melodies supporting the raw and introspective vocals, which lend a poignancy and maturity to the often outwardly adolescent lyrics. Although it […] More
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Working Men’s Club: Live at YES in Manchester
It took less than five minutes to decide to travel from Edinburgh to Manchester for one of the three social distanced gigs that Working Men’s Club were putting on at YES on Sunday 4th October. Ticket bought for 8pm gig. Train and hotel booked. Bish Bosh all sorted in the space of 15mins. I love […] More
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Spilligion by Spillage Village: Spellbinding Doomsday Vibes
Atlanta-Maryland based rap collective Spillage Village have been gradually building the ground for a breakthrough over the past years. Following their superb “Bears Like This…” compilation trilogy, and with each member building their solo profiles, the group started to take off in 2019 after key members EARTHGANG and JID were signed to A-list rapper J. […] More
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Fleet Foxes’ Shore: A Limited Return
Although credited as the second studio release by Indie folk-rock outfit Fleet Foxes since their reunion in 2016, the name is a bit of a misnomer. For all intents and purposes, Fleet Foxes’ Shore is a Robin Pecknold solo project, recorded without input from the rest of the band due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pecknold […] More
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XXL Freshmen Freestyles 2020: A Typically Mixed Bag of New Talent
For the uninitiated, every year New York Hip–Hop magazine XXL selects those up and coming rappers it considers the most promising and puts them together on its cover, organising a round of freestyles and cyphers to showcase the artist’s talents. Nominally 10 rappers are chosen, but this target is rarely expressed in the actual line-up, […] More
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Chromatica: Lady Gaga Returns to Her Decadent Dance-Pop Roots
If you’re of my generation, the career arc of Lady Gaga reads like pop culture legend. If you were looking to attribute the dominance of pop music over other genres during my adolescence to a single name, it would have to be Lady Gaga. While the ’00s were all post-grunge, bling rap, pop-punk and RnB, […] More
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How I’m Feeling Now: Pop Futurist Charli XCX Delivers a Revealing and Vulnerable ‘Quarantine Album’
If there is a single impression that UK pop singer Charlotte Aitchison has consistently given off throughout her career—and it’s really this that has made her such a dynamic presence on record— it’s that she lives to make music. From her early mixtapes to her triumphant third album, the shimmering party-girl persona she cultivated promised […] More
