On stage and in the studio, Mclusky was one of the most acerbic, aggressive, and sarcastic bands around. For those lucky enough to watch the original line up tear up stages and thrash themselves and ...

Fronted now as then by singer-songwriter Louis Eliot, the suave, sophisticated outfit released a pair of fin de siècle albums and bothered the lower reaches of the singles charts before going their ...

One this musical generation’s key storytellers picks the world apart and evokes both horror at our present and optimism for our future Suzanne Vega’s first album of the 2020s is hard work. Not on the ...

Erasure’s singer romps through euphoric Eurodisco and gospel on his third solo album, and lines up a guest star spot for Debbie Harry An Andy Bell solo album has always felt slightly jarring in the ...

With admirable ambition, the British rapper delves into a concept on his best album yet Although there are many more mentions of ‘home’ on Wretch 32’s latest album, he ends his verse on Black And ...

Play it loud and revel in the weirdness Few bands capture the absurdity of modern life with as much grotesque glee as Viagra Boys. On their feral fourth record, Viagr Aboys, the Swedish outfit distil ...

Uncompromising, yet weirdly accessible pop-sleaze from the trio with guest star spots for Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter and Iggy Pop Considering The Moonlandingz began life as a ‘fictional’ band, it’s ...

And it was her second album as Self Esteem that gave her all that. The answer is A Complicated Woman, the third Self Esteem album that takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut ...

Louise Macphail and Kristen McFadden, seem to have been around for ages. They met in London at a songwriting course, and when Macphail returned to her native Chicago, the two started writing music ...

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Lambrini is one of the cheapest wines; it’s a drink held by sweaty teenagers at their first house parties and passed around the bedrooms of girls getting ready for a night out. Bubbling with juvenile ...

Rialto have not. Will anyone remember them? Do they start from scratch? And, perhaps most pertinently, why now?  If you’ve seen the video for Neon & Ghost Signs’ lead single No One Leaves This ...