Crack Cloud, whether they purposefully intend to or not, always subvert your expectation. Through some of the most highly regarded early releases of the last few years, the Canadian collective drew from intense yet undeniably infectious foundations – tracks that…
It’s sweltering, the air-con’s broken, the Nevada air sticks like velcro, prickly and fastening. Yet you’re moving like your life depends on it, the physical motion electric to the skin, every pore burning with adrenaline. This is ‘Hot Heater’, the…
Lazarus Kane, our modern day Lizard King of the Night, has returned. If ‘Narcissus’ was the venom-filled, trouser-flared introduction, then ‘Night Walking’ is LK’s definitive proclamation – an ebullient dedication to the night out at a time when secretly that’s…
It’s pretty difficult to pin down at just what moment everything clicked and made Fontaines D.C. quite clearly the household name they are today. What’s not incomprehensible is the why. ‘Dogrel’ was the poetically-absorbing embodiment of the modern day –…
What’s been so invigorating about Katy J Pearson’s work so far is her unquestionable ability to write so empathetically from such a personal perspective. Her songs unconsciously capture a knotty feeling of hope and understanding, melancholy and doubt, like a…
Our society is built on nepotism. The very notion that any of the “higher statesmen” that find themselves at the top of the pecking order when it comes to making any of the judicial leadership decisions of the country earned…
It feels almost needless to say that western capitalism has become the laughing stock of the world-wide pandemic in what is a severely unfunny situation. I may sound like a broken record, but how we continue to stand against the…
Rising out of self isolation with his first release, the enigmatic and compassionate sounds of Dick Dent smuggle you away into another world – one of deep, yearning colours and lingering vulnerability. Taken from his first EP ‘Life’s Hard’, ‘Juliet’…