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Nothing’s Changed, Nothing Matters, That’s Beautiful. A phrase that kept pounding away between my eyes as You’re Gonna Need A Little Music sprawled itself out before me. I found myself reviewing Yard Act in a far different personal landscape to…
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Album Review: Brian D’Souza – Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 007 (Sunflowers)
How strange, I thought, that a sunflower could generate a sort of space-age nostalgia for an extraterrestrial future I had never seen.
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Live Review: Lily Allen – West End Girl Tour (Dublin/London) (29th-30th June 2026)
The professionalism Allen brings to the performance means the chaotic nature of the album is ironed out into an organised mania
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Interview: “I’m Not an Optimist” – Max Vanderwolf on Music, Myth and the Algorithm
Max Vanderwolf lives in parallel worlds. As a restless musician, he refuses to stand still. As his birth name Glenn Max, he’s spent decades coaxing unforgettable performances out of legends like David Bowie, Patti Smith and Ornette Coleman. His new…
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Album Review: Olivia Rodrigo – You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (Geffen)
Olivia Rodrigo’s third album, “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love”, trades the Taylor Swift comparisons for New Wave guitars, a Robert Smith duet, and the most grown-up heartbreak of her career.
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The Alternative Escape, Brighton : May 2026 – Review
This is what The Great Escape looks like when you’re half in, half out. Moving between sets with a work laptop in tow, dodging crowds and sudden rain, hopping between cafés, bars and makeshift outdoor stages to catch some of…
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Live Review: Alice SK, The Hope & Ruin, Brighton – The Great Escape, 16/05/26
During the Great Escape festival, central Brighton feels like a slightly sleazier, moodier version of one of those waiting rooms on the X Factor. Almost everyone you see seems to have just come off stage or be waiting their turn.…
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Live Review: Flea and the Honora Band – KOKO, London (26/05/2026)
For more than forty years, Michael “Flea” Balzary has been ploughing through the shifting tides of rock history at its frontline. With his debut solo jazz album, Honora, Flea is paying tribute to his childhood heavily influenced by his jazz-musician…
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Live Review: caroline, Knockdown Center – New York (21/05/26)
“It brought to mind a wave returning again and again to crash against a rocky and lichenous shore: never the same, and always the same.”
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Album Review: Inferno – Boards of Canada (Warp Records)
Just shy of thirty years after their explosive debut album’s release, Boards of Canada are back, and their new album Inferno proves to the world that age is just a number. Inferno moves from funny to innovative to dancy and…