10 Feb 2022
The Scoop: Modern Woman – Beauty Is In The Ear Of Observation
So what truly makes Modern Woman, Modern Woman?
20 Jan 2022
The Scoop: London’s Island Of Love – Wholesome Scuzz For Daydream Believers
If you’ve ever engaged in a bit of stoner-cloud-watching on a late summer’s afternoon, this is undoubtedly something for you.
10 Mar 2021
The Scoop: Glasgow’s VLURE – The New Leaders of the Pack
Part post-punk throb, part industrial chug, with a sprinkling of the quasi-80’s anthemic – it sounds like the late Dale Barclay fronting early Depeche Mode
04 Mar 2021
The Scoop: Teesside’s Benefits – Fighting Music For Fighting Times
This is music that would sound genuinely bizarre coming out of any other part of the world – it is the sound not just of a country on the brink, but a country tired by its own conditioned apathy into acceptance.
18 Feb 2021
The Scoop: London’s Legss – Welcome to the Age of the Bystander
Perhaps simply by virtue of the fact that they’re not a world-touring, chart-infesting act, there is a case that could be made that Legss are one of the most underrated acts to grace the British musical landscape of today. Theirs…
11 Feb 2021
The Scoop: Bristol’s Robbie & Mona – Dreamy Pop Landscapes and Jolts of Hyper Electronica
Bristolian couple-duo Robbie & Mona (Pet Shimmers own William Carkeet and Eleanor Gray) have emerged from the woodwork of the bizarre existence we live, and with recent Spinny Nights-released album EW, we have been graced, already, with undoubtedly one of…
04 Feb 2021
The Scoop: London’s TV Priest – Pounding Rhythm and Cynical Grit
In a musical world of ever-increasing over saturation, the claustrophobic paths walked by an act are increasingly defined by the separation of wheat from the chaff, the tenderloin from the Rustlers burger, the insipidly drudging from the sparklingly magnetic. Particularly…
21 Jan 2021
The Scoop: Leeds’ Yard Act – Setting The World Ablaze From Lockdown
If there may be some grace in the universe, it certainly lies in fantastic music emerging from the hitherto unknown. So it was with Yard Act, the Yorkshire act who appeared in lockdown with only a couple of gigs under…
14 Jan 2021
The Scoop: London’s Nuha Ruby Ra – The Coolest Motherfucker on the Planet
It’s still early, but I’m pretty sure East-London avant-pop songstress Nuha Ruby Ra is the coolest motherfucker on the planet. At the very least, her live experience reads as a laundry list of bands many can only dream of supporting;…