ALBUM REVIEW: Sea Girls – Open Up Your Head

Over the past decade the indie genre has stagnated, wallowing in a bottomless pool of its own egocentrism. Each of the once-renowned heroes— The Strokes and The Killers in particular, often cited as inspirations for London-based Sea Girls—  have taken a stab at rejuvenating indie’s verbose self-indulgence over the past few years, with varying levels …

ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Garratt – Love, Death & Dancing

Jack Garratt, with his debut album Phase, proved himself to be the epitome of a ‘solo artist’. Writing, performing and producing everything on his debut album; the successes of the EDM-pop virtuoso struck a chord with the world. After a sold-out UK tour and a successfully-selling debut, Garratt returns with his second album Love, Death & Dancing after releasing …

ALBUM REVIEW: The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form

We either listen to the new The 1975 album, or we don’t. Unlike Greta Thunberg’s message in the eponymous opening track, there are no consequences to our selfish or selfless minds if we do, or don’t, listen to the 1975’s fourth album. Photo Credit: Mara Palena The 1975’s pre-NOACF-release reputation became damaged with the optimistic and …

SINGLE REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – ‘Hollywood’

Car Seat Headrest’s single Hollywood, taken from upcoming album Making A Door Less Open, is a refreshing and welcome damnation of the place where people go to make their dreams come true. Photo Credit: Carlos Cruz Frontman Will Toledo pays homage to alt rock and the poetry of spoken word with a more agitated sound …

ALBUM REVIEW: Ed O’Brien makes his solo debut with ‘Earth’

“I never planned it” usually refers to eating the entire tray of banana bread in one sitting, or being sat in the pub eight pints deep on a Thursday night after only going out for a quick one. Ed O’Brien, however, proclaims he ‘never planned to make a solo record.' After three decades and nine …

ALBUM REVIEW: King Charles – ‘Out Of My Mind’

Returning with his third studio album, Charles Costa (aka King Charles) has released Out of My Mind, a sonically incoherent yet lyrically revealing album into Charles’ discovery of his identity and musicianship. Although classed as an alt-rock-folk-indie etcetera artist, this new album offers a new twist of all said genres, encompassing a number of bold synthesisers …

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR… SO FAR

As March has finally come to an end and spring has started, we are a third of the way through a turbulent year where the world and entire music industry are on hold. Here we look back on our favourite albums released in the first chapter of this year. You may discover new music to …

ALBUM REVIEW: Sorry – ‘925’

Emerging out of the increasingly repetitive London post-punk scene, Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen (joined by bassist Campbell Baum and Lincoln Barrett on drums) deftly set themselves apart from their contemporaries. 925 is the consequence of three years of experimentalism and Sorry are redefining what it means to be a ‘guitar band’ in the modern …

Lucy Bernardez makes her comeback with new single “Tomorrow”

I started out in the Southampton scene a few years after Lucy Bernardez did and quickly found the name she had worked for herself. Having heard of her so quickly, it took me an oddly long amount of time to catch her live, I’d think at least a year. Two years ago she released her …

Twin Atlantic to play Brighton’s Concorde 2 in March in support of new album

Twin Atlantic have recently returned with aplomb on the release of their fourth album 'POWER' last month - also their first release with Virgin EMI - and will be heading out on a UK tour next month in support of this incredible release. Following a main stage performance at Reading & Leeds as well as …