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Our verdict on Sam Fender’s Mercury Prize winning, People Watching.

A great on album, on paper. But, in practice, it too often falls flat with its try-hard sentimentality.

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Album Review: Sam Fender – People Watching
The Geordie star shoots for greatness but falls short by too often forcing the issue
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October 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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As Oasis fever spreads to the US, revisit our look at a psychedelic oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue. 👇

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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🌙 Moonchild Sanelly’s Full Moon is bold, cheeky & heartfelt - amapiano grooves, body-positive bravado, and raw vulnerability shape her future ghetto funk.

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Album Review: Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
A review of the latest from South African star, Moonchild Sanelly. An album full of heart, humour, and horniness.
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August 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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This Side of the Island finds The Walkmen frontman, Hamilton Leithauser, at his most ragged & radiant - shrill yet soulful, playful yet profound. Imperfectly perfect.

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Album Review: Hamilton Leithauser – This Side of the Island
A review of the latest solo effort from The Walkmen frontman.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Photocomfort’s Patron Saint is a gorgeous debut - blending vintage jazz vibes, glitchy twists & moments of indie-pop gold.

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Album Review: Photocomfort – Patron Saint
A review of the debut album from Boston-based indie-pop artist, Justine Bowe aka Photocomfort.
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August 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Track of the Day is a wild, three-act psychedelic rap epic, blazing its scorched earth trail in under three minutes.

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Track of the Day: Wave Generators – Beyond Beyond
Track of the Day is a wild, three-act psychedelic rap epic, blazing its scorched earth trail in under three minutes.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🎧Track of the Day🎧

A hard-edged West-Coast rap banger, featuring Kendrick collaborator, Lefty Gunplay.

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Track of the Day: Fnasty323 – 100 Guns 100 Clips
Track of the Day is a hard-edged West-Coast rap banger.
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August 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🍑Peachy by The Rhythm Method is a record full of character: wry storytelling, sly grooves, and quietly ambitious songwriting.

Find out why it was one of our favourites of 2024👇
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Album Review: The Rhythm Method – Peachy
A relatable ode to belatedly coming-of-age in the tradition of great British pop Five years on from their debut and after almost a decade together, there’s a risk that the London duo of Joey Bradbu…
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August 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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💎 Best albums of 2025 you probably haven’t heard yet 💎

From coastal-folk heartbreak to playful existentialist rap, our pick of 5 hidden gems from the year to date.

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2025 Mid-Year Review: The Best Albums you haven’t heard of
Continuing on from our pick of the best albums of 2025 so far, here are five of the best albums that have went under the radar.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Automatic isn’t stripped-back, it’s hollow. The Lumineers’ latest does little to dispel the notion that they’re stomp-clap relics.

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Album Review: The Lumineers – Automatic
As they sacrifice some of their catchy charm, The Lumineers lack of songwriting depth is increasingly exposed The Lumineers may only be five albums deep, and still command popular appeal, even if i…
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August 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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SABLE, fABLE is Bon Iver stripped bare and rebuilt—dark introspection meets euphoric romance, with Justin’s voice carrying both ache and light.

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Album Review: Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
Justin Vernon leans into the mythology of Bon Iver, while delivering his most straightforward songwriting yet on a trip through his darkest lows and brightest highs Justin Vernon’s latest had been …
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August 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Oasis like you’ve never heard them. Amorphous Androgynous turned a middling latter day single into a 22-minute psychedelic odyssey; filled with sitars, strings, and warped vocals. The sound of a cosmic rebirth.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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August 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Small Time Monsters is a blend of gothic imagery and classic pop that masks haunting tales of heartbreak and desire.

From Western-disco to dreamy jangles, The Dream Machine are upstart eccentrics with the skill of old masters. Review👇

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Album Review: The Dream Machine – Small Time Monsters
A review of the second album from Merseyside psych-pop eccentrics, The Dream Machine.
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August 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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From Aussie punk snark to Black Country poetry. Revisit our top 50 albums of 2024. 👇

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2024 in Review: Top 50 Albums (50-31)
Part 1 in our top albums of 2024 counts down numbers 50-31. Featuring Doechii, Jack White, and Jamie XX.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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“Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain”

Revisit our review of the best UK rap album of last year, the Mobo Award winning Being Poor Is Expensive by Bashy.

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Album Review: Bashy – Being Poor is Expensive
Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain
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August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Our track of the day is a (relatively) accessible offering from one of underground rap’s great experimentalists.

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Track of the Day: GDP & Fatboi Sharif – Luchador Mask
Our track of the day is a (relatively) accessible offering from one of underground rap’s great experimentalists.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Our track of the day is the standout from The Toxic Crusaders’ debut of warped and woozy boom bap throwbacks.

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Track of the Day: The Toxic Crusaders – Safe to Say
Our track of the day is the standout from The Toxic Crusaders’ debut of warped and woozy boom bap throwbacks.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Album Review: The Courettes - The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes

The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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Album Review: The Courettes – The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes
The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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August 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Despite the diminishing returns, Oasis’ later years were still peppered with occasional gems. This psych epic is quite unlike anything else in their catalogue. Albeit, the real credit doesn’t go to Oasis themselves.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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August 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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EP Review: Westside Gunn - HEELS HAVE EYES

Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, it was only appropriate to look at this through the lens of wrestling. - “This is Ric Flair as the touring NWA champ of the 80’s.”

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EP Review: Westside Gunn – HEELS HAVE EYES
A review of Westside Gunn’s latest EP. Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, we look at one of underground rap’s biggest stars as a parallel to a veteran wrestler.
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August 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Rhys Langston’s “rapper’s singer-songwriter record” is a boundary blurring opus as his lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions.

Album Review: Rhys Langston - Pale Black Negative
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Album Review: Rhys Langston – Pale Black Negative
A boundary blurring opus as Langston’s lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions Pale Black Negative is ostensibly an underground hip-hop rec…
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August 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A forgotten piece in the jigsaw of rock history, and one of the earliest entries in the metal canon.

From the archives, a review of the obscure proto-metal classic, Randy Holden’s Population II.

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August 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Album Review: Miles Kane - One Man Band

Kane never comes off as more than the sum of his influences, and it’s unclear what he actually adds to the equation; he struggles to establish himself as more than a competent revivalist.

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Album Review: Miles Kane – One Man Band
A review of Miles Kane’s 2023 album, One Man Band.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM