Reviews
Live Reviews
Maxïmo Park Prove It’s Not Just Nostalgia at Cambridge’s Corn Exchange
Maxïmo Park’s debut album A Certain Trigger has come of age and it’s the perfect time for an anniversary tour. However, on...
Single Reviews
Greta van den Brink Calls Out Performative Masculinity on Fiery New Single ‘Mr Ego’
With This Wasn’t Planned on the horizon, Greta van den Brink is carving out a space that feels distinctly her...
Live Reviews
Lorde’s Auckland Homecoming Wasn’t a Victory Lap — It Was a Reintroduction
Mothers who played Pure Heroine in the car. Teenagers who found themselves in Melodrama. University students who slow-danced to Solar Power and now stood ready...
Live Reviews
Motionless in White turn Nottingham inside out
★★★★☆
From there it was relentless. ‘Disguise’ had everyone clapping and headbanging in sync, ‘Slaughterhouse’ delivered huge call-and-response screams, and the...
Single Reviews
ZAYN Is Back: New Era KONNAKOL Begins with Powerful Single ‘Die For Me’
★★★★☆
The name KONNAKOL itself comes from the South Indian art of vocal percussion, creating rhythm purely with your voice, but for ZAYN,...
Single Reviews
BIG SPECIAL Keep It Real, Raw and Unapologetically Human on New Single ‘SLUGLIFE’
★★★☆☆
SLUGLIFE sounds like it was built from exhaustion and defiance in equal measure. Hicklin’s voice hits like poetry shouted down a...
Live Reviews
Mika turns HMV Vault into a living room of love, laughter, and lyrical tea spills
★★★★☆
A love-in with laughter, lyrics, and tea? Only Mika could make a chilly January night feel like a glowing hug...
Album Reviews
Only The Poets – And I’d Do It Again Album Review: A Debut Built for Feeling Everything
Only The Poets’ debut album And I’d Do It Again captures the highs, hangovers and hard truths of love gone...