Category: Reviews

The first sample of Deftones’ ninth full-length effort makes for typically headbang-able fare, yet the lead single from it’s namesake album is sewn with a prescient, regretful, and almost universal desperation.

With socio-political lyrics as sharp and incisive as its riffs, the Brighton-based band’s grungy ode to shoegaze deserves to be cranked up, loud.

We locked in to Saturday’s instalments of the Bristol band’s rough-around-the-edges Abbey Road live sessions.

Through the process of personal reflection and recuperation, Owens’ techno/ambient merger champions the notion of interpreting music as a meditative exercise to consciously heal and connect.

The new, rough-around-the-edges release from Olsen provides the other side of the coin to 2019’s All Mirrors.

With rousing, tongue-in-cheek anthems probing modern dating, capitalism, and discrimination, Dream Nails’ eponymous debut album proves that, in a world where no stone is left unturned in political debate, resistance isn’t quite as futile as it used to be.

Self-described as “Solange with an Indonesian twist”, Komang merges traditional Indonesian musical cultures and modern electronic pop, avoiding the clichés that so often ruin similar fusion projects. Instead, her debut single ‘Dewi’ just feels fresh.

A deliberate and masterfully executed exploration of her ancestral heritage, Garcia’s debut album serves as a captivating snapshot of who she is both as an individual and a musician, steeped in the collaborative spirit of not just the London scene, but of the musical traditions of which she is a part.

Seeking comfort in solitude, the Bristolian troubadour’s latest single was coincidentally inspired by the aspects of life that have grown tiresome of late.

On his first LP since moving to the States, Eyedress dazzles with a slick, lo-fi combination of bass-driven songs and a genre-hopping approach to songwriting.