Touché Amoré – ‘Flowers and You’ Piper: Touché Amoré showed me how vulnerability and intensity can coexist without compromising either. The emotional honesty in their writing and how direct and ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for ...

Heaven’s Gate’, finds the band in more familiar Portrayal Of Guilt territory (if there is such a thing), with a lo-fi, claustrophobic feel to the barrage of guitar and frantic blast beats. Similarly, ...

In many ways this could apply to Knife Bride and their new EP ‘Sorry About The Plague’. Speaking of things sweeping across Europe, destroying everything in their path, Knife Bride have just returned ...

David Byrne – ‘We Dance Like This’ King: A premium yelper – obtuse and ordinary all at once – Byrne has that same off-kilter warmth as Bob Mortimer; joyfully strange, but deeply human. He can turn the ...

The most immediately notable aspect of Teen Suicide’s latest offering – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’ – is that the production value is great. This is worth pointing out as the band initially ...

A new Skindred record is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so when it’s as crammed with as much self-belief as ‘You Got This’. While their sound has mellowed of late, like on 2023’s ‘Smile’, ...

In 1996, the world was still digesting what Rage Against the Machine had done to it three years earlier. Their self-titled debut album had arrived like a grenade rolled under the door of mainstream ...

Imagine an artist. A painter. Their work, their art, isn’t just about ideas. It’s about expression, the form, the way they paint the picture. Maybe they choose water colours, they might choose to work ...

Take the time to reflect. Sit a moment with your sadness. Watch a drop of condensation snake its way down a window pane. Imagine the route it will take, the direction it will travel, and observe its ...

You’re tired. We’re tired. Everyone is tired. Reading the news or comments from writers can make you ask yourself: Where did the malaise come from? Is it even real? Was everyone always this tired? Is ...