Modernity is hellbent on making music subservient to aesthetic culture. Designed to soundtrack glimpses of our curated lives, the days of directing all of our sensory power to listen closely to the ...

There’s something inherently messy about trying to put life into words, especially in this moment, when everything external also makes little sense. In Bleeds, Wednesday takes the violent scratchings ...

“They don’t make them like they used to.” It’s a phrase we hear all too often from people who are determined to undermine the current generation’s ability to write classic albums that compete with the ...

Every decade between the end of World War II and the millennium bore a dramatic leap in pop cultural development. From the genesis of rock and roll in the gyrating knees of Elvis Presley to the ...

Ronnie Rondell Jr, the American stuntman who was famously set on fire for the artwork of Pink Floyd’s album, Wish You Were Here, has died aged 88. While he would later move on to becoming a stunt ...

Fear not, dear reader; this is a safe space. You are not alone if, in general, but particularly in recent weeks, you have worried over whether you want to continue your Spotify membership due to their ...

The Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, is leading a €600 million investment into a start-up company specialising in artificial intelligence military software. As reported by Financial Times, Helsing is one of ...

THE SKINNY: Something that I criticise fairly regularly with a lot of albums is a lack of versatility. What I mean by that is that every song sounds the same, and therefore, the songs become stagnant.

THE SKINNY: There’s nothing quite like a solid, expertly live-recorded album to capture a band’s explosive stage energy. University is a case in point. Following 2023’s Title Track EP, the Crewe-based ...

Jazz finds itself at a very interesting crossroads in the year of our lord 2025. On the one hand, jazz has been a niche genre of music for well over half a century. Sure, there was a period of time ...

THE SKINNY: The theme of music being all-encompassing and submerging is something a lot of people, myself included, call upon when writing about a large-sounding album. The moment drone effects come ...

THE SKINNY: With every new album, we are constantly reminded of the loss of genre, and we do not mourn. Catalogues and labels in music take their last breath as the boundaries that artists surround ...