Elvis Thirlwell, Author at So Young Magazine

by Elvis Thirlwell 11 Mar 2025

Listen: Manchester’s Truthpaste Release Debut Single ‘See You Around’ via Memorials of Distinction

Released via London independent label Memorials of Distinction, Truthpaste enter a landscape where folk-fuelled-indie is reaching all new kinds of popularity and appeal.

by Elvis Thirlwell 27 Feb 2025

Listen: C Turtle Return with New Single ‘2001’

C Turtle are a band that seem hell bent on taking lo-fi rock to it’s highest fidelities yet.

by Elvis Thirlwell 11 Feb 2025

Listen: London’s Most Things Share Debut Single ‘Shops!’

Most Things’ debut single looks back at London’s already swelled array of pared back post-punk bands and thinks, ‘hmm, there’s too much going on here. Let’s strip it back some more.’

by Elvis Thirlwell 05 Feb 2025

Listen: NYC’s YHWH Nailgun Share ‘Sickle Walk’ and Announce Debut Album via AD93

There are few bands that can unleash such monumental bowel-restructuring passions in such a short space of time. Theirs is a dance like no other; a swaying, jerking writhe that rocks and boulders like a belching wave in the middle of a polluted ocean.

by Elvis Thirlwell 30 Jan 2025

Listen: London’s Memory of Speke Return with New Single ‘Freedom’

London’s Memory of Speke return with new single ‘Freedom’. Belted with all the full-burning passion of an early Dexys Midnight Runners ballad, yet stylised with the kind of toytown rock anthemia that would make the tiny stadium crowds at Minatur…

by Elvis Thirlwell 21 Jan 2025

Listen: London’s Bishopskin Return with New Single ‘Old Sock’

‘Old Sock’ is as succinct and punchy a welcome to the church of Bishopskin as anything the band have hitherto produced.

by Elvis Thirlwell 29 Nov 2024

Listen: Brighton’s Glasshouse Red Spider Mite Share New Single ‘Thorns In My Mouth’

Despite still being so early into their career, Brighton’s Glasshouse Red Spider Mite are already undergoing remarkable evolution.

by Elvis Thirlwell 19 Nov 2024

Listen: Chicago’s Horsegirl Return with New Single ‘2468’ and Announce New Album

Sounding like they’ve ingested a whole harvest’s worth of Moldy Peaches and watched Napoleon Dynamite on repeat for weeks, ‘2468’ shows a remarkable creative leap despite its sweet simplicity.

by Elvis Thirlwell 14 Nov 2024

Listen: NYC’s YHWH Nailgun Share New Single ‘Penetrator’ and Sign to AD93

New York’s YHWH Nailgun are here to riddle your dreams and infest your soul with their nightmarish beauties.

Articles by: Elvis Thirlwell