The UK’s Olly Alexander, former frontman and now sole member of Years & Years, has been on a mission. He’s here to make pop fun again. In the post-Lorde era, pop has for the most part dialled down the theatrics and shifted toward a minimalist, writerly approach. This of course
Dance pop / Electronic / House / Pop / UK club
We’re not going to lie, this one slipped under our radar. A new Joy Orbison track that morphs from droning ambient into a full on dancefloor rager? Orbison’s own statement that he’s “sitting on quite a lot of unreleased music”? It’s shocking that we’re only getting to this track now,
The origin point of house music can be traced definitively back to Chicago, where the form arose as a reaction to disco and became popularised by its Black, mostly queer, progenitors at the South Side’s The Warehouse nightclub from which the genre takes its name. But house would also find
There’s lots of new material expected from Grimes in the coming week. The Canadian alt-pop star has released the cover art for long anticipated and much teased single, Shinigami Eyes which is due to drop on January 26th via popular video game Rocket League. The single, which follows Player Of
Alt-Pop / Grimes / music news / New Music / Synthpop / virtual reality
Last week, the metaverse hosted its first virtual rave. On Thursday, January 20 hundreds of online users visited Decentraland (a metaverse virtual reality that encourages people to buy plots of land with cryptocurrency) to experience what metaverse nightlife might have to offer. The event, hosted by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard
From the new guard of sonic disruptors to South Asian experimental R&B, these are our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Iceboy Violet – Vanity The latest single from Manchester based rapper, DJ, and producer Iceboy Violet is the first taste of the artist’s upcoming debut mixtape,
Alex Goddard / Disco / experimental / hyperpop / R&B / trap
Last year, Martha Skye Murphy released the triptych Concrete; an EP of three, icy pieces of baroque pop featuring production from FKA Twigs. Gravelly, astral, and ethereal, Concrete was as expansive as it was fleeting. Gone in just over twelve minutes, Concrete gave credence to Murphy’s skill as writer and
The visualisers for the music from British producer Bonobo’s seventh album, Fragments, have all played with the dynamics of light as it interacts with the natural world. For Rosewood, one of the album’s first singles, the ocean and a mountain coastline blur into a singular wormhole. For Tides (and Fragments
A new date has been confirmed for the 64th Grammy Awards. Originally scheduled to take place on January 31st in Los Angeles, the awards and show were delayed indefinitely due to the surge of the Omicron variant in the US. The ceremony will now take place on April 3rd, and
The UK government has reached a final decision in their plans to scrap Plan B. The initiative, which was put in place after ‘Freedom Day’ in July last year, made it required by law to provide proof of vaccination or a negative lateral flow test in order to enter nightclubs,
