Leeds was once again tranformed into a sonic jungle last Saturday (16 October) for its annual urban music festival. Live at Leeds, as always, was a rich ecosystem of talent, overflowing with new sounds and prom...
Beabadoobee has avoided being pigeon-holed in her career so far, changing genres at every turn. From a folksy acoustic beginning (2018's Patched Up), to a punchy indie sound (2020's debut album Fake It Flowers)...
Foundry at The University of Sheffield's Student Union, with its dim lighting and low ceilings, is not renowned for its space, but venue scale is not a concept Inhaler seem phased by. Back off the success of pl...
With robo-cheerleaders, hazmat suits and optical illusions, Bring Me The Horizon’s (BMTH) hometown show was a leap through the looking glass, bringing each phase of the band’s musical identity over the past dec...
Surfer dude who plays breezy, harmless, acoustic music; we have Newton Faulkner pretty much sussed right? Wrong. With Interference (Of Light), Faulkner is making clear that he’s far more than, plucky guitars, a...
Rejjie Snow’s follow up to his 2018 debut, puts the rapper firmly in a world of his own, as the approach to the tricky second album is tackled.
Baw Baw Black Sheep follows a three year pause, punctuated by t...
By the time a third album comes along, you often hope the artist has mixed it up a bit, taken a risk. Wolf Alice have not done so on Blue Weekend. But what the London band have done (and done masterfully), is f...
Since the release of 'Sit Down', one of the most seminal tracks of the nineties, James have released a staggering 15 studio albums – an especially impressive feat when you consider the band had a six-year hiat...
With Bright Green Field, Squid wipe the slate clean, destroying any preconception of them as a 'post-punk' band, before shattering the slate entirely to create an uncompromising mosaic of influences and excitin...
Pale Waves ditch the eighties style guitar riffs and sleek synths of their debut, and instead turn to the 2000's heyday of pop punk for its follow-up, Who Am I? Despite the record largely parroting this era...