Featuring a mix of the old and new, Brighton formed three-piece Our Girl, unleash their debut album, Stranger Today, via Brighton-based Cannibal Hymns. Formed by The Big Moon’s guitarist Soph Nathan, Our Girl’s Stranger Today is the culmination of four year’s labour, the band forced to work around the unexpected…
It’s been half a decade since Miles Kane’s last solo record, Don’t Forget Who You Are. Since then, a lot has changed on the indie music spectrum. While most of Miles Kane’s contemporaries have fallen into obscurity, the general landscape has changed. Gone is the more lad-inspired indie-rock and in…
It feels like a lifetime since we last heard a Scissor Sisters album, but could Jake Shears’ new solo debut be the closest we’ll get to it in 2018? The answer is both yes and no, as, while the self-titled record doesn’t forget that iconic SS sound, it does…
For the classic recipe of a Slaves album you’ll need: punchy riffs, political narrative and two lunatics flying around a studio. The return of the Kent two-piece with their third full length record, Acts of Fear and Love, has certainly brought all the ingredients to create one hell of a…
To say these are extraordinary times is one hell of an understatement and on this, their 15th studio album, James are fully confronting this turbulent period. While not ostensibly about Donald Trump, his tangerine shadow casts a shade over much of the mood, though there are some piercing personal aspects…
After their rapturous return to the UK with their outstanding performance at Lovebox Festival in London last week, The Internet – the offshoot group from Odd Future which spawned the likes of Tyler, The Creator and Frank Ocean – have followed up their Grammy-nominated album Ego Death with Hive…
I don’t know what to do with Joy. I can barely wrap my head around it. It’s a nonsensical tug of war between two artists that have their feet rooted firmly in chewing gum, the intrigue is strong. Joy feels like a lost record from the 60s made by two…
Producer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist David Longstreth, the creative visionary behind Dirty Projectors, returns with a new album, Lamp Lit Prose. Adding to a wildly varied catalogue, this is their ninth release and comes with collaborations from Syd, Robin Pecknold, Rostam Batmanglij, Amber Mark, Empress Of and Dear Nora, and…
Breathe Panel are a Brighton band through and through. Having formed here at university, they became synonymous with the Brighton live scene having supported the likes of The Big Moon, Honeyblood and Quilt across the city. Excitement built so much from their live showcases and their early singles ‘On My…
It’s proven increasingly tough for bands to translate their live antics onto a studio album. The likes of Sex Pistols, The Undertones, and even The Who could never really replicate their euphoric live displays in the studio. So it would be a difficult task for Asylums – of rowdy, mosh-pit-heavy…