With its fair share of mesmeric highlights, Poptones’ second album is frothing with majesty and promise. On Pure, Poptones sound like a band with something to prove. Their brash unpredictability, combined with a newly broadened instrumental palette complete with saxophones and slide guitars, makes them both immediate and eclectic. Naturally,…
By channelling their rock sensibilities harder than ever, yeule comes through with their most euphoric and emotionally tangled album to date. With their near perfect marriage of the digital and the emotional, yeule has proved to be one of the most compelling songwriters to come out of hyperpop. 2023’s softscars…
“The reason Dougie just brought on a new microphone is because I managed to fill the other one with my spit!” Frank Turner raises his arms, his facial expression somewhere between pride and dumbfounded amazement that he’s managed to break a microphone with saliva alone, and the crowd reward him…