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Yebba doesn’t present forgiveness as something she has arrived at. Instead, she circles it, questions it, and returns to it over time, as if testing whether time itself has changed its meaning. On Jean, forgiveness is never declared. It is ima…

ANOMY doesn’t announce itself as a crisis album. It doesn’t need to. It moves with the calm of someone who has already accepted that the moral centre has shifted, and is more interested in mapping the damage than sounding the alarm. Thro…

One Year Later: Living With Handsome Luke & The Heartbreakers A year after its release, Handsome Luke & The Heartbreakers feels less like an album you revisit and more like one you quietly live alongside. Time has a way of revealing…

We inherit more than names or traits. We inherit questions, absences, the way someone we love leaves their echo in us. Legacy comes not only through what is done or said, but through the marks left behind — subtle, insistent, shaping who we be…

One of my favourite things about being in this industry is when I come across an artist who is just starting out and then watching them grow year after year. I’ve been watching Kristi Lowe for a couple of years now and so naturally, I was keen…

If you have been listening to Olivia Dean for as long as I have, you will agree with me when I say that love, for Olivia Dean, has never been a static emotion. It’s an ongoing practice — imperfect, patient, and deeply human.Her sophomo…

There’s something fitting about naming an album after a tree that thrives in places it shouldn’t. Juniper carries that spirit in its marrow. It’s resilient, stubbornly alive in harsh terrain, and evergreen. For Joy Crookes, the tit…

I have been listening to Annahstasia since her first release in 2022 and I have been living inside her debut album Tether since June. It creeps up in the quiet hours, it demands a replay on the walk home, it settles like a soft bruise behind the ste…

Lil Yachty traded in his 808s for psychedelic rock guitars, expansive synth-pop, and jazzy-funk soundscapes, delivering Let’s Start Here—an unexpected reinvention.For someone who spent the early years of his career as the poster child …

After a six-year hiatus, Paramore have finally returned with This Is Why, an album that both honors their roots and pushes their sound forward in exciting ways.Following After Laughter, which marked a bold shift toward new wave and synth-pop, This…