London’s illustrations community is a tight-knit web of talented creatives who lead the way in the global illustrator sphere (if indeed there is such a thing). But when we encountered the work of Tiff McGinnis (AKA Grande Dame), we were struck by the way she covers so many disciplines from …
A year after the release of their first EP, Plants Plants (Stuart Francis and Howard Whatley) are back with their second extended player, which is out on June 18th. EP 2 was produced by Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco, so you can expect typical electro indie sounds – glitchy …
The consensus amongst us, the sardine-slotted voyeurs in attendance for Grimes’ Islington ‘bleep-boop’ rally was of some dazed inferiority. Her set was definitely too short. But it was also definitely really hip. So it twisted my investigative noodle to hear people openly mix the breathy declaratives “it really was a …
A return to old stomping grounds of yore in hometowns is a nice novelty, particularly if it’s to a few hundred people when a few weeks later normal service is resumed when playing to thousands at Brixton Academy.
And so it is thanks to Jack Daniels and their themed JD …
O. Children came about in 2009 with their self-titled debut album. Four young men dressed in dark, fitted clothes making equally sombre music was striking but not that original on face value. Although it was easy to categorise them into an already-established music tribe, this didn’t mean they weren’t writing …
Not too long ago we were raving to you about FOE’s smooth, punk hit, ‘A Handsome Stranger Called Death’, and now we have more fun FOE news for you. Just released 30th April were two innovative takes the dark, yet catchy tune. Collaborating with Maria Minerva and Com Truise, FOE …
A stars-and-stripes collagen plumps the bikini-clad body of Best Coast’s music like a botoxed slab of Blackpool rock. Such lo fi stupidity fills 32 vacuous minutes with headless bambi-crap that’s backward even for the picket-fence pout that surrounds its plastic ‘50s context. Coincidentally ‘The Only Place’ with its titular …
As Ina Cube (alias Laurel Halo) moves labels from Hippos In Tanks to Hyperdub, her compositions move from instinctively beat-led tunes to experimental melodies and sinuous rhythms. Through her first full-length release Quarantine, the listener is lead through aquatic beats into bleak underwater caverns echoing with bubbling synth.
Certain …
You may remember her as the guitarist and backing vocalist for the Northern Ireland based, rock band Ash, but Charlotte Hatherley is back with a whole new persona.
We love our share of eccentric, risk-taking female musicians—Lady Gaga, Rihanna (post Chris Brown), Nicki Minaj, Jessie J…you get the gist. Something …
Following on from my success with games such as ‘Which Annie Album Is Best?’, which involve listening to two albums over and over, back to back, with great pleasure and without ever resolving the question, I have recently instigated ‘Which Is Best: Polica or Gayngs?’ and have been playing it …
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