With a live reputation that precedes them and fingers in just about every slice of pie that the various music scenes in Leeds are cooking up, with ‘Zero Guilt’, Fuzz Lightyear look well poised to ...

Kings of Leon’s fifth record was always going to be the one that defined them. No-one was going to write them off after they changed their sound for ‘Only By The Night’, moving towards slick, polished ...

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Perhaps it’s turned out to be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth, because ‘Double Roses’ feels weirdly half-baked.

There aren’t too many ways to get straight into the hearts of Team DIY, but launching your career with a KFC-inspired anthem will definitely go a long way towards it. And so, for the better part of ...

Charli xcx has returned with ‘House’, a spectacular sonic left-turn from her ‘BRAT’ era that sees her join forces with none other than John Cale of The Velvet Underground for a dissonant, strings-led ...

The second album is usually a tipping point for a band; a key factor in deciding whether they will go on to flourish and develop or drift off in to obscurity. Fortunately, for Los Angeles quartet The ...

The experience of listening to ‘Headbangers In Ecstasy’ is a frustrating one, mainly because it contains very little of the two things promised in the title. This album is more a hazy drunken stupor ...

Animation’s finest musical troupe Gorillaz are back with another new offering, this time in collaboration with IDLES. Seemingly tapping straight into society’s current consciousness, ‘The God of Lying ...

Where The Murder Capital’s debut, ‘When I Have Fears’ (2019), delivered poetic post-punk melancholy, the follow-up, ‘Gigi’s Recovery’ (2023), showcased atmospheric introspection. ‘Blindness’ marks a ...

Newly signed to renowned electronic label Ninja Tune, 21 year old London producer and DJ Raffertie has been making waves among the electronic music community for a while now with his commitment to ...