With a background that features going to high-level squash matches featuring members of her family, including her uncle Jahinger Khan, considered by many to be the greatest squash player of all time, Natasha Khan nurtured an interest in the ceremonial and ritualistic that was a feature of these matches,…
Made almost entirely by Joseph Mount in a two-week period in France (where he has lived the past few years), Summer 08 harks back intentionally to that period in his life when his second album, Nights Out, had come out, and suddenly he was 'enjoying' the fruits of life…
Laura Mvula is one of those rare artists who come along from time to time with a refreshingly original sound. She has a unique and instantly recognisable voice and style, first gifted to the world through her début album, Sing to the Moon, which narrowly missed out to James…
I can’t think of the last time an album’s title summed up the emotional state of its content quiet so succinctly as Mitski’s fourth album Puberty 2 does. Now in her mid-twenties, Mitski’s album marries the relentless melodrama of feeling everything for the first time while in your adolescents…
How do you perceive South Korean music? How does it appear? Largely, when the Western audience think of South Korean music, their knowledge does not spread much further than K-pop. K-pop, for those who are not familiar is a sweeter-than-sugar take on pop music, a sickening blend of 90s…
Cinematic features within music can often be an overused way of describing music, an intangible term that struggles to describe much musicality but more “how it feels when you shut your eyes”. When it comes to the post-rock equivalents of Swans, the likes of Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai…
Small Pond has become one of the most interesting concepts in Brighton of recent times. Coined in 2013 by a gang of friends who had an ambitious plan to not only put on their favourite live acts but release their records, book their tours and film their performances. Since then,…
Last year experimental rock giants Primus played a show with a lesser-known psychedelic pop act called The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, fronted by none other than that old son-of-a-Beatle Sean Ono Lennon. During a backstage jam Sean found some serious common ground with Primus bandleader, and idiosyncratic…
What began as an excuse to throw a party for a wedding, has over five years grown to become a successful, small-scale festival, with an overriding emphasis on being family-friendly. This year's event sold out in advance, and looks now to have established itself for the forseeable future if…
You would be churlish to not admire their work ethic, the fact they rose through the ranks through sheer hard work and determination (a fact we should celebrate in our nation's youth!); the fact that they obviously just love to play no matter where, but not unabashed to explicitly…