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Alex Duke
Dec 17, 20202 min read
EP Review: Foster The People – ‘In The Darkest Nights, Let The Birds Sing’
Los Angeles-based indie pop icons Foster The People are back with an easy-listening six-song EP. The only problem? It’s abysmal. The...


Amrit Virdi
Dec 15, 20203 min read
Album Review: Taylor Swift – ‘evermore’
A surprise sister album to the enchanting folklore, one of music’s most loved starlets Taylor Swift weaves lucid tales of love,...


Amber Frost
Dec 10, 20203 min read
Album Review: Ólafur Arnalds – ‘some kind of peace’
Existing at the bashful intersection of neoclassical, ambient, and EDM, the latest project from Icelandic producer Ólafur Arnalds, some...


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Nov 29, 20205 min read
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On the last weekend before we descend into the festivities of the winter period – though relatively little is likely to change other than...


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Nov 22, 20206 min read
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As we stagger past lockdown’s halfway point, The Mic’s writers have rounded up an eclectic selection of the weeks hottest new tracks to...


Owen White
Nov 21, 20205 min read
Album Review: Gorillaz – ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’
Strange sounds for stranger times; the seventh studio album from Gorillaz is a vivid, eccentric revitalisation of pop music. Bringing...


Joseph Alton
Nov 16, 20204 min read
Album Review: Ariana Grande – ‘positions’
Divesting the former kids TV star of any lingering vestiges of her old squeaky-clean image, Ariana Grande’s positions is a sizzling...


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Nov 15, 20205 min read
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In the thick of a second, trying lockdown, The Mic shine a light on the tracks offering an antidote to the tedium. This week's dazzling...


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Nov 8, 20204 min read
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In a round up of the best singles of the previous week, writers cover releases from Oliver Heldens, Giggs, System of a Down, and many more


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Nov 1, 20205 min read
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As spooky season draws to a close, our team have chosen the best singles of the past week to usher in November in style. Have a read...


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Oct 28, 20204 min read
Album Review: The Vamps - ‘Cherry Blossom’
From artificial cheese-pop to introspective instrumentalism, Beth Walker unpacks The Vamps most mature project to date, ‘Cherry Blossom’.


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Oct 28, 20205 min read
FOCUS: Liam Bailey
The Mic’s Joe Hughes talked with Nottingham soul hero Liam Bailey on his blending of reggae, R&B and soul on new album, ‘Ekundayo’.


Alex Duke
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Interview: BLOXX
Following the glittering August release of debut album ‘Lie Out Loud’, Alex Duke chatted to BLOXX’s charismatic mic-wielder Ophelia Booth.


Izzy Felton
Oct 22, 20203 min read
Album Review: Working Men's Club - ‘Working Men's Club’
Isabelle Felton weighs in on the latest exposition from the burgeoning post-punk renaissance: the doomy debut from Working Men's Club.


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Oct 19, 20203 min read
Album Review: Fleet Foxes - ‘Shore’
Fleet Foxes' have made a surprise return with a warmer, but no less mercurial, dive into the psyche of front-man Robin Pecknold.


Grace Dalaigh-Taylor
Oct 15, 20204 min read
Album Review: Beabadoobee - 'Fake It Flowers'
After dominating social media with hit song 'Coffee', Beabadoobee is back with new LP, Fake It Flowers. Grace Dalaigh-Taylor delves into it.

Alex Newport
Oct 15, 20205 min read
Album Review: Headie One - 'EDNA'
The debut album from the undisputed king of UK drill, Headie One, shows a definite growth in maturity, but falls deftly short of greatness.

Olivia Stock
Oct 9, 20206 min read
EP Review: GFE - ‘Persuade U’
Sleepy, escapist dream pop with a gritty post-punk aftertaste, GFE’s newest EP, ‘Persuade U’ is the band's most intricate project to date.


Alex Newport
Oct 5, 20205 min read
Album Review: Joji – ‘Nectar’
YouTuber-turned-R&B prodigy Joji returns, and triumphantly, with his hotly-anticipated sophomore record, Nectar.

Maxwell Jeffries
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Album Review: Machine Gun Kelly – ‘Tickets to My Downfall’
Who knew that the best pop-punk album of the year would come from a rapper?
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