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Label: Dirty Hit The return of Pale Waves ’ retro alt-pop falls in line with vocalist Heather Baron-Gracie’s coming-of-age movie marathon, taking a step back to focus on identify and to engage heavily ...

Label: Domino Most notably, ‘Ness’, the third solo album from former Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe, is not a record which can be easily divorced from its context: namely using the words and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: AWAL On last year’s debut ‘If My Wife New I’d Be Dead’, CMAT swung open the doors to her bold, brilliant world via a set of sparkling heart-on-sleeve anthems, and a good dose of pop culture ...

Pop’s newest drag superstar is unprepared to compromise. It’s palpable throughout ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, which turns it all up to a thousand, infusing teen melodrama with queer ...

Label: Ninja Tune On third record ‘softscars’, yeule sits at the intersection between bedroom pop and 2000s pop-rock. Where breakthrough ‘Glitch Princess’ depicted scattered synth-pop within dystopian ...

Label: EMI Navigating love, loss, and everything in between, Mae Muller uses this lengthy 17-track debut to explore a series of experiences through her own personal lens. Carefree opener ‘I Just Came ...

Label: Invada For anyone whose knowledge of Billy Nomates is just in passing, ‘CACTI’ might come as somewhat of a 180-degree swivel: the minimalist post-punk of ‘NO’ or her turn with Sleaford Mods on ...