Birth Of Violence sees Chelsea Wolfe enter a new territory, embracing an intimate gothic folk-rock style. Whilst her previous works, such as 2015’s Abyss and 2017’s Hiss Spun, have incorporated…
Touted for a while now as the Great White Hope for British guitar music in its deteriorated state in the era of streaming, Sam Fender’s…
The British indie electronica project Metronomy is back with its sixth, the 17-track effort Metronomy Forever. Boastful in its name at first glance, it’s a…
While the music of (Sandy) Alex G always possessed a special kind of vibe (the one that made you wonder if you’re paying enough attention…
Having spent a decade doing reunion tours to varying degrees of acclaim, the departure of original bassist Kim Deal and the release of the criminally…
Having become famous for their rowdy Chicago homecoming gigs packed out by their dedicated local fanbase who adore their charming, enthusiastic take on punk and…
As a new academic year begins and the outdoors becomes a little less welcoming, remember you can catch up with all the best new music…
Time and place play a critical role in explaining the rise of Warp Records and how it achieved the kind of success that it did.…
Check out our playlist over at Spotify of all the best new music that's been released so far in August. Foals have released a brand new banger…
Gigs & Festivals
Khalid @ First Direct Arena, Sunday 22nd September With a chart-topping album, a clutch of Top Ten hits and five Grammy nominations already under his…
Skinny Living @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday 14th September Thanks to the overwhelming demand for tickets for their Friday night gig, Skinny Living have added…
SASAMI @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday 7th September Sasami Ashworth – who records under her first name SASAMI – cemented her place among indie’s rapidly…
2000s
Looking back on the decade that’s passed since the quiet release of The xx’s debut album, it’s slightly strange to think of xx as a…
Big voice, big presence and big sound – the grandeur of Florence Welch and her Machine is something anyone who’s ever had a glimpse of…
It was about Dirty Projectors’ incredible breakout album Bitte Orca that Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel birthed the immortal critical phrase “making the critic’s job undoable”…
1990s
There’s a line in ‘How Fucking Romantic’, halfway through the first disc in The Magnetic Fields’ massive triple-album 69 Love Songs, in which Dudley Klute,…
Who could’ve thought that an album that peaked well outside the Top 100 in the charts upon its release, regardless of the ‘underground’ following its…
Of all of the new genres that Britain threw up during the Nineties, trip-hop was the most quintessentially British sound of them all. Skewed beats…
1980s
In the aftermath of their legendary party-starting debut Licensed To Ill in 1986, Beastie Boys were in a curious place. They moved to the West…
Since their inception in the late ‘70s in the wake of punk, Robert Smith and the rotating cast of The Cure have become a globally…
Three decades after the release of their self-titled debut album, there’s very little left to say about The Stone Roses at this point in history.…
1970s
Synthesisers had been in use in popular music long before our collective consciousness normally recognises them as having appeared in the charts. Edgar Froese had…
The first time you pick up a copy of Cut, the icon(oclast)ic debut album by The Slits, you’re immediately struck by its front cover of…
The punk explosions of the late Seventies were widely imagined as a ‘year zero’ for pop music, a point where artists should rip things up…
1960s
In contrast to the mythologising that often surrounds rock star deaths, the story of Nick Drake is not a remotely glamorous one. Instead, it is…
The ‘rock opera’ has had a chequered history as it has evolved in the half-century since the archetype was established in 1969. Like its close…
In between the dazzling avant-garde architecture of that 1967 debut album, still rightly celebrated today as one of the greatest albums in history, and the…
As a companion piece to our annual end-of-year albums list published earlier this month, The Student Playlist presents The Top 50 Tracks of 2018. You…
Although it’s been a year pock-marked with political and social uncertainty, that sense of upheaval and tension has resulted in some pretty fine art being…
Revisiting any period in popular music is always interesting, insofar as one’s memories of it change and evolve as time passes and the present gets…
Usually, when summarising the career of an artist in the wake of tragedy, there is a formality to the style, one filled with clichés like…
Lennon and McCartney; Morrissey and Marr; the Gallagher brothers. Some of the most iconic pop music ever made has been predicated by immense partnerships. Looking…
It’s been almost two decades since Pavement were active in any meaningful way, the group’s component parts quietly parting ways in the pursuit of solo…
