Hailing from the Catalan region of Spain, the now-London living artist, Odina is all set to release her debut album, What I Never Told You on 21st August. The record is a culmination of years of work from the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and is intrinsically a confessional project that deals with everything from heartache […]
Author: Charlotte Holroyd
IN FOCUS // Huck Hastings
A name change, a new sound, a rebrand – these elements together signalled the start of a new era for Sydney-based musician, songwriter and vocalist, Huck Hastings. After spending a few years out of sync with his solo project, due to other commitments and other musical projects, attention was diverted back to Hastings’ solo pursuits […]
MUSORELIEF: A Bitter Sweet Symphonies Online Festival
Bitter Sweet Symphonies was founded on the basis of two elements: music and community. The want (but more accurately, the need) to share good music with more than just oneself, to foster a collective space in order to start conversations, to spread the word about underground gems and celebrate this communal medium.
In Conversation With… OCTOBER DRIFT
After five years on the scene, October Drift released their largest body of work yet, with January’s drop of long-awaited debut album, Forever Whatever. A high octane melange of grunge, hard rock, pop hooks and shoegaze; the songs enclosed offer a focussed lens on the band’s career to date: from the revelrous ‘Oh the Silence’ […]
LIVE REVIEW: IDER + Art School Girlfriend at Band on the Wall, Manchester
Meg Markwick and Lily Somerville met at University in the early 2010s, it was there that pair formed a kindred alliance that would later transpire into a musical project called IDER. Soulful sensations of R&B and electronic pop serpentine to create a scintillating burst of new wave pop, contemporary and current but also reminiscent of […]
ALBUM REVIEW: October Drift – ‘Forever Whatever’
Debut albums often combine a collage of songs written and collected over a period of time, stitched together with the eagerness of infancy and the latitude to dream big, a first record can be anything it wants to be. Here in 2020, after many years of building the mechanics through endless streams of touring and […]
2019 IN REVIEW: Bitter Sweet Symphonies’ Albums of the Year
It’s been a year of double albums, retrospectives and optimistic introductions—in between we’ve set the record straight with Taylor Swift, campaigned for change with Greta Thunberg (via The 1975 and Fatboy Slim), and gone back to basics with Bruce Springsteen.
2019 IN REVIEW: Bitter Sweet Symphonies’ Tracks of the Year
A track has the ability to say so much and equally not enough, but in the same breath it has the capacity to launch a career. The single song culture of today is built on this rule. Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Mabel and Camila Cabello are just a few artists that […]
In Conversation With… YONAKA
From day one Yonaka embraced originality, displaying a fierceness that is breathtaking to behold and a formidable talent that any fresh-faced band would seize if they had the chance. Brighton has been the band’s home base from the start, and it seems that it was always meant to be like that, offering the four-piece freedom […]
LIVE REVIEW: Neighbourhood Festival 2019
What to say about this year’s round of Neighbourhood Festival? It was eclectic. The programming was focused on a few particular styles of music, yet the acts and what they brought in their live shows ranged from highly conceptualised spectacle, cathartic solitude, breathtaking precision, to beautifully collective uproar – as well as steadily providing entertaining […]
In Conversation With… STEREO HONEY
Currently touring the UK with emotive brethren Amber Run, London-living Stereo Honey are deep into a two-plus week span of live shows, utilising this time to unveil a host of new music as well as air beloved favourites, these dates symbolise the band’s first shows of 2019. The four-piece has been rolling under the radar […]
In Conversation with… SNOW PATROL
This autumn, Snow Patrol will embark on a UK/IE-wide tour in celebration of their forthcoming Reworked album, due 8th November. Industry accolades and career-affirming milestones have been rolling in since the five piece released their long-awaited seventh studio album, Wildness, last May; completing a third appointment at Bangor’s Ward Park last year (which saw the […]
LIVE PREVIEW: Neighbourhood Festival 2019
It’s that time of year again, as we reach the end of September the UK’s Northern climate becomes increasingly more seasonal, outdoor living starts to feel less practical, so we retreat indoors, and fill the hallowed spaces of cosy back rooms with renewed warmth. Just as festival season appears to be over for another term, […]
ON REPEAT: Five songs for your playlists
On Repeat: the place where we round up the most exciting new music releases. Five tracks, all recently released, featuring artists we can’t get enough of right now – so, almost certainly, you’ll find at least one song in this bunch to add to your playlists.
Jumping Track // The Route to Broken Hands’ Sophomore Album
The next steps following a debut album can be tricky to figure out, after tour ends and the crew return home, what’s left at the end of it all? Scattered, half-processed memories of dingy backrooms from dive bars the world over, images of riotous nights rendered forever in casts of amber, cities of enthusiastic faces […]
TRACK OF THE DAY: The Chevin – ‘Under the Thunder’
After six steady years of non-disclosure from The Chevin, with only the thought of the occasional Coyle Girelli solo show to keep our minds vaguely attentive, the Yorkshire outfit finally returned this August arm in arm with gigantic, pounding revelry. New single, ‘Under the Thunder‘ is nonetheless, as the title suggests, a wild force of […]
A Band to Believe In // The Emotional Spectrum of Flyte
Releasing their debut album, The Loved Ones in 2017 was a defining moment for Flyte, and hardly the final curtain call. After the album impacted the band took to the road playing shows all across the globe, often headlining, sometimes opening for prominent names (including The Lemon Twigs and Lord Huron). Once tour wrapped the […]
ON REPEAT: Five songs for your playlists
On Repeat: the place where we round up the most exciting new music releases. Five tracks, all recently released, featuring artists we can’t get enough of right now – so, almost certainly, you’ll find at least one song in this bunch to add to your playlists.
ON REPEAT: Five songs for your playlists
On Repeat: the place where we round up the most exciting new music releases. Five tracks, all recently released, featuring artists we can’t get enough of right now – so, almost certainly, you’ll find at least one song in this bunch to add to your playlists.
EP REVIEW: L. Norton – ‘Skin’
Electro pop has grown out of favour in the alternative scene, a gradual shift in tastes and convenience has seen us streaming less and less genre music with song classification adopting a more mood-based, representative format in which the listener assumes an active role in the process. Artists are responding and the result is a […]