Live At Leeds: The VLM Round-Up
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...
Live Review: Beabadoobee at Liverpool Sound City
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)...
Inhaler at Foundry, Sheffield: Gallery
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...
Live Review: Bring Me The Horizon at Utilita Arena, Sheffield
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...
Album Review: Newton Faulkner – Interference (Of Light)
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...
Album Review: Rejjie Snow – Baw Baw Black Sheep
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...
Album Review: Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
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...
Album Review: James – All The Colours Of You
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...
Album Review: Squid – Bright Green Field
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...
Album Review: Pale Waves – Who Am I?
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...