On Please Daddy, a collection of songs written in the aftermath of her father’s passing, Sarah Mary Chadwick is understandably somber, yet never understated . Her voice rumbles in and out of decipherability, above compositions recalling Prince at his most emotional...

Ezra Koenig seems a complicated man. His affinity for self-memeification, breezy indie pop and deprecating stage patter endeared him to the mildly-washed masses over the past decade. However, his very abrupt transition to Hollywoodism, penchant for lazily...

Another week, another hour of quality tunes. Crumble is a highlight from BROCKHAMPTON prefect Kevin Abstract’s debut solo LP, ARIZONA BABY. Revolving around an Iridescent, pining vocal hook and Abstact’s gritted teeth verses, it’s a sumptuous slice of...

On Oh My God, Kevin Morby undertakes the most ambitious project of his silvering career. Undertake the operative word, for a record built around religion, politics and, most of all, death. Sonically, OMG, is joyous. Sparse, organ-led trickles regularly give way to...

Another week, another hour of quality tunes. Dougie Poole lends his OST croon to Wild Motion, a highlight lifted from Drugdealer’s latest full-length, Raw Honey - a touching love letter to 70s bliss-folk which hits homers on this, Fools and Honey and gets...

When I call Fontaines D.C ‘sweater-punks’ it’s very much a compliment. Coming in hot off the mainstream crossover of Shame, IDLES, Sleaford Mods (🤮) et al, Fontaines have been quickly pin-pointed as the successor to The 6music Punk Throne which seems to change hands...

March signified the start of banger season, launching us towards summer with a napsack full of anthems; Jayda G, Shura and Jamila Woods among the chief instigators with three of the most infectious tracks of the year so far. The Comet Is Coming brought...

Disclaimer: I kinda got bored after 2 and a half hours of this and zoned out. I also watched the director’s cut. Lol.Very much one of those films people go YOU AIN’T SEEN IT? about which, though I have my gripes with, does usually lead to me watching good...

God damn, it's a pop spectacular this week. Reigning Queen Ariana is back with another banger in MONOPOLY, whilst name-I-always-heard-but-never-listened-to-but-now-I've-listened-I-am-well-in-to Billie Eilish did an album that's chock-a-block with anthems...

Another week, another hour's worth of bangers. From the prolific and phenomenal Tierra Whack's Unemployed, right through to the highlight of American Football's better-than-it-should-be latest, Doom in Full Bloom. In between, This Is Shit (I Want to Go),...

On Crushing, an aptly named sophomore outing from Julia Jacklin, we find a woman stranded in beautiful romantic anguish. A previously hinted at penchant for heartbreaking poetic ventures in to the depths of human relationships brings itself to the fore of...

A film shooting for the bizarre, aiming to divert our eyes to the ludicrosities of the modern art world, Velvet Buzzsaw does so po-faced and unnerving. There are no winks to the camera, no “are you guys seeing this shit?”s. In fact, the whole affair is...

Having now seen half of them, I loudly proclaim Can You Ever Forgive Me? the finest of all this year’s Best Picture nominees. Hear me roar!Two hours of biblio-porn is enough to make a film worth watching, I suggest, and CYEFM? is chock-a-block with...

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of inspiration, how one artist’s work can spark creativity in an other. This new series, Inspiration Information, looks in to how some of the most interesting and exciting new artists react to inspiration, feed from it...

Feb… quality month! Already talked about loads of these tunes so won’t repeat myself. Dutch-chuggers Lewsberg sauntered in to my consciousness by way of the inescapable loveliness of Terrible, whilst Cherry Glazerr got raunchy on the fuming Daddi and...

Weird film this…kinda effed up if you may pardon my French! Just got a 2 week free trial with the BFI streaming thing cos Netflix ain’t doing it for me on the film front recently and decided to kick things off with David O Russell’s 1994 debut which is...

The correlation between the amount of Oscars won and the actual quality of a film is almost non-existent, hence most of my favourite movies from the past 12 months going without wins or nominations (with a few exceptions, obvs). Basically, these are the 12...

This week's offerings have included roaring efforts from KOYO, Phil Graves and Tierra Whack, with some glitched out weird shit thrown in for good measure by the always bewilderingly beautiful Xiu Xiu. Highlights though come courtesy of Aldous Harding and...

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of inspiration, how one artist’s work can spark creativity in an other. This new series, Inspiration Information, looks in to how some of the most interesting and exciting new artists react to inspiration, feed from it...

Five Early Pieces wears it’s influences proudly on it’s sleeve. From the distortion-draped opening open chords of In The Microwave, the candles are lit and the mood set. The debut release from ‘unpopular west london rock band’ Phil Graves is a brilliant...

Yo! Check out Hard Boiled: Weekly below - a new weekly playlist series, updated each Friday with an hour's worth of the week's best new music. This week's offering features infectious chug-rock by way of ex-Happiness member Jelly Boy, Steely Dan-esque...

“Man will always be chasing his shadow ’til the day comes he finally realises the values of comfort over style.” - Me, just now, trying to think of a banging opening sentence for this ultimately dumb-as-hell blog.Tucking My Jumper Into Me Jeans is a look...

I first was introduced to Clarice Lispector when a Wild Beast name-checked her as an inspiration behind their then-upcoming record, Smother. Years on, I finally read her brilliant The Hour Of The Star and, later, her debut novel, Near To The Wild...

Quite a feat, to make a film equal parts harrowing and heartwarming. Nae Pasaran, centered on the solidarity shown by Scottish factory workers during Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1970s Chile, toes the line between an inspiring tale of Union-based,...

A male-dominated commentary on malevolent masculinity and the misanthropic malaise it entails, led by our protagonist Sinan, portrayed masterfully by Aydın Doğu Demirkol, who is half Ed Droste and half a squashed Ryan Gosling.Clocking in at a hefty 190...

January has been uncharacteristically fruitful in regards to banging new music, from the blogged-to-death James Blake, Sharon Van Etten and Better Oblivion Community Center records to the slightly-under-the-radar-but-not-really Angelo De Augustine and Lost...

Jonah Hill definitely wants everyone to know he’s cool doesn’t he. From the weird tucked in Suns-jersey to the Aaron Ramsey knock off bleached cut to his use of ESG, Omega and Del The Funky Homosapien on the Mid90s soundtrack. The film runs a bit like a...

Went to see Blindspotting t’other night and it blew me away. The lead performances were incredible and with Shiva from The League starring alongside Newman, after Kozelek / Hedburg / Baruchel in Almost Famous, it ticked another actor combination off my...

For the past week and a half I have lived with a moustache, to see what the hell is up with that. What began as a joke to – altruistically, importantly – welcome two new colleagues to the office quickly derailed in to either a depraved fashion faux pas or...

I’m glad I didn’t watch Almost Famous when I was 15 because it definitely would’ve become my number one personality trait, a void that was subsequently taken by liking The Strokes. I struggle watching actors I know as adults as children – so Kate Hudson...

I’ve never been to Italy but I think if I were to go I’d be disappointed by the pizza. That and many other metaphors sum up my feelings towards Halloween. As what I presume to be the father of tropes so well-worn and tired to the point of derision, the...

I am the latest to the game that it’s possible to be, but I have a new love and it’s Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s voice. I have absolutely no idea what he’s saying but I’m hanging on every syllable, every utterance. I can’t remember the last I time I heard a...

I think the sign of a truly great emo album is whether you can imagine it in a 20k cap venue as easily as you can imagine it in a 200 cap venue. It’s gotta be simultaneously sweaty and stadium-sized, and Dear You sounds like Dingwalls and Anfield at the...

I read about this album on one of those Best Albums You’ve Never Heard lists. I hope they’re lying to me. What starts – and ends –  as pretty straightforward CBGB-tinted punk, descends in to an off-colour Steely Dan pastiche for around four minutes...

As someone whose knowledge of jazz lies somewhere between Kamasi Washington and the theme from Men Behaving Badly, an early work of critically-revered Polish multi-instrumentalist Zbigniew Namyslowski seemed the logical first step on this…there should be a...