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Rebecca Hyde
Feb 13, 20214 min read
Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – ‘SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound’
All high, no comedown, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are back with a blistering new record with a suitably absurdist name. Where their 2019...


Robbie Simms
Feb 12, 20216 min read
Album Review: slowthai – ‘TYRON’
Slowthai takes a look in a cracked mirror on sophomore album, TYRON. Moving from a jagged-edged electro backed first-half with the CAPS...


Charlie Farrer
Feb 12, 20214 min read
Album Review: Claud – ‘Super Monster’
After taking a semester’s leave from uni, indie-pop maven Claud went on to tour with Girlpool, Girl in Red, and The Neighbourhood, and...

Matt Taylor
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Album Review: Portrayal of Guilt – ‘We Are Always Alone’
Surging with violence and dripping with venom, Portrayal of Guilt’s half-hour of industrial-grade hardcore is enough to purge the...

Izzy Felton
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Album Review: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’
On his collaborative album with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, the producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and visionary turns what he hears into...


Amrit Virdi
Feb 9, 20213 min read
Album Review: RY X – ‘Live from the Royal Albert Hall’
In an unlikely but majestic collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, RY X (Ryan Cuming)...

Joe Hughes
Feb 6, 20213 min read
Album Review: Celeste – ‘Not Your Muse’
Responding to the hype attributed to her from all corners of the music industry, Celeste has delivered a debut album that outperforms all...

Louis Griffin
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Album Review: Black Country, New Road – ‘For the first time’
Teetering on the border between profundity and absurdity, Black Country, New Road’s For the first time is a sprawling feat of a debut....


Gemma Cockrell
Feb 3, 20214 min read
Album Review: You Me At Six – ‘SUCKAPUNCH’
Known for their melody-dense, radio rock, You Me At Six tread down a darker path on their seventh studio album SUCKAPUNCH. Featuring...


Freya Martin
Jan 31, 20214 min read
Album Review: Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’
Percussive, sharp-edged, and soaked in complexity, On All Fours is everything we could’ve hoped for from Goat Girl’s long-sought...


Gemma Cockrell
Jan 28, 20213 min read
EP Review: Fickle Friends – ‘Weird Years (Season 1)’
Reliable indie-pop to lift dwindling spirits, Weird Years (Season 1) marks the first instalment of Fickle Friends’ incoming sophomore...

Matthew Andrews
Jan 25, 20214 min read
FOCUS: Night Bus Revival
Compact yet expansive and dealing in oxymorons, the debut EP from Nottingham alt-folk mogul, Night Bus Revival, is a delicately balanced...


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Jan 25, 20215 min read
The Mic Recommends
New year, same Mic Recommends – back to rounding up the biggest and best tracks of the past week (or in this case two!). Our first...


Alex Duke
Jan 17, 20215 min read
Interview: Django Django
In the build up to the release of their hotly-anticipated fourth LP Glowing In The Dark, Alex Duke caught up with Django Django members...


Charlie Farrer
Jan 17, 20214 min read
EP Review: Frank Iero and The Future Violents – ‘Heaven is a Place, This is a Place’
Deliberately disordered and yet so evidently crafted with total precision, Frank Iero finds his identity on the achingly beautiful Heaven...

Ben Preston
Jan 16, 20215 min read
Album Review: Shame – ‘Drunk Tank Pink’
The weirder, wiser cousin to 2018’s Songs of Praise, Shame’s latest export melds a menacing tone and relatable Gen Z musings into a...


Olivia Stock
Jan 12, 20213 min read
Single Review: Tragic – ‘Dishonoured Gentleman’
Spokespeople for a frustrated generation, Northampton punk trio, Tragic, are a band exceedingly comfortable in discussing the...


Lilith Hudson
Jan 8, 20218 min read
Interview: Passenger
A mainstay in the world of soft acoustic-pop, Passenger’s work manages to capture an indescribable world of emotion; each sparkling track...


Izzy Felton
Jan 6, 20213 min read
Album Review: ‘Home Protests’ – Mystery Jets
Revitalising and reimagining some of history’s greatest protest songs for the blighted contemporary age, Mystery Jets’ Home Protests is a...


Matt Taylor
Dec 17, 20203 min read
Album Review: Deafheaven – ‘10 Years Gone’
A shimmering, seething product of an unstable year, Deafheaven’s brand new live record, 10 Years Gone, commemorates a decade of the...
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