With the release of DISASTER POP last week, Nukuluk took to the Windmill Brixton to launch their debut EP – supported by a host of exciting newcomers.
Author: Miles Ellingham
In Review: Pop Smoke – Faith
As with all untimely deaths we’ll always be eager for a broader insight into what could’ve been with Pop Smoke’s potential. Does the second posthumous collection of his tracks satiate this eagerness or dilute the influential drill music that made his meteoric rise to fame?
In Review: Squid – Bright Green Field
Squid’s debut album has lived up to the hype: it’s hard to pin down the album because it’s always changing. It continually mutates throughout, which is part of what makes it so enthralling.
In Review: Alan Vega – Mutator
All the history of Vega and Suicide swirls around in this album from the vault, which has an eerie spatial quality to it. Hearing him yell at you from beyond the grave is disorienting; it absorbs you – it’s like you’re being haunted by his ghost.
In Review: Natalie Wildgoose – ‘You’
The jazz crooner’s debut single is a sumptuous love song that borrows from the romantic refrains of Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser and the folk traditions of Karen Dalton. It’s crooning done right.
LIVE: Bishopskin + Black Bordello @ Tileyard London
London Gig Weekly’s latest livestream offering was a mix of folkloric praise and beguiling charisma, from two of London’s more captivating emerging artists.
Blanck Mass: “I was trying to paint a picture of my grieving process”
We speak to the genre-pushing producer in the wake of his fifth solo LP In Ferneaux.
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: the best tracks from the new Adam Curtis documentary
Few documentary filmmakers care more about music than Adam Curtis, so we dive into his best selections for his recent six-part documentary series.
Sleaford Mods: “I’m not a believer in music changing anything…”
Condemning class tourism, Tory hegemony, and infamous political aids, Sleaford Mods have become a totem of the UK music scene by taking a stand for society’s dispossessed. The Buzz writer Miles Ellingham spoke to Mods’ frontman Jason Williamson and got his prognosis of the current moment.
In Review: Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
Sleaford Mods’ new album doesn’t want to reassure you. It’s a snarling wake-up call: you’re disposable now. You’d better stand up, lest you become a spare rib yourself.