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11.30pm: Olivia Rodrigo closes out Glastonbury 2025 with empowering, attitude-packed stint on the Pyramid Stage It’s no secret that Glastonbury is a festival that caters to a great musical many, but ...

With campers now firmly settled in, and a series of ace artists having already taken to stages yesterday, spirits are high ahead of what’s set to be a huge Friday. While The 1975 will be stepping up ...

As moving as it is musically satisfying.Label: Island EMI The opening words to this fourth album from Loyle Carner are “beautiful accidents”, and it’s a line that can serve as a metaphor for the ...

Label: 5dB From the raucous shifting sands of opener ‘FRANCES’ to the aggressive technicality of closing number ‘CHUNKS’, this second EP from Bristol-based MOULD presents an uneasy yet fully ...

Label: AWAL Though he might be best known for his acting, that’s by no means the only string Joe Keery has to his bow. A former member of psych-rockers Post Animal, the multi-hyphenate has been ...

Label: Roadrunner Few bands understand and embrace texture like Deafheaven. On this sixth full-length, the San Franciscan iconoclasts compress layers of loudness into tracks that glimmer like precious ...

Label: ANTI- With this full-length debut, Sam Akpro builds on the reputation of his earlier releases, painting a vivid – if almost entirely grey-hued – picture of modern metropolitan malaise.

Label: Fair Youth / Atlantic With a year between EPs and now almost two since then before this full-length debut hits shelves, Galway outfit NewDad are clearly ones to take their time. The initial ...

A cathartic sonic exorcism.Label: Nettwerk Returning for her third full-length outing, with ‘Erotica Veronica’ Miya Folick has delivered a record that’s equal parts haunting, spectral folk-pop and ...

Label: AMK Following both his 2023 debut album ‘damn, look at the view’ and his work as part of indie pop supergroup FIZZ (alongside Orla Gartland, dodie and Greta Isaac), ‘man oh man!’ sees Martin ...

Label: Def Jam Alessia Cara ’s fourth full-length record is a celebration of artistic and personal growth. Her emotionally literate songwriting has been a hallmark since her 2015 debut, with hit ‘Here ...