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Beckah Amani – ‘This Is How I Remember It.’ review: a bold, expressive debut

For singer-songwriter Beckah Amani, music is a means for finding a home anywhere. Born in Tanzania to Burundian parents, then moving to Australia as a child, she made sense of the worlds moving in and around her through songwriting, influenced by everything from her family’s heritage to the Western pop and indie artists she had grown to love. READ MORE: Beckah Amani welcomes you to her garden Now, on her first full-length album, ‘This Is How I Remember It’, Amani marshals […]

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Gigi Perez: The chart-topping ‘Sailor Song’ star who’s building her own community

Gigi Perez says her incredible breakout success is hitting her “in waves”. Earlier last month, the 24-year-old topped the UK singles chart with ‘Sailor Song’, a lusty folk ballad that opens with a truly captivating couplet: “I saw her in the rightest way / Looking like Anne Hathaway.” Alongside Billie Eilish’s ‘Lunch’ and Chappell Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, it adds to a banner year for queer female representation: ‘Sailor Song’ has also scaled the charts in Australia, Singapore and Perez’s […]

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Uche Yara – ‘Honey’ review: a woozy, yearning EP sizzling with ideas

One year after her debut single ‘Www She Hot’, Uche Yara remains difficult to pin down. The Austrian multi-instrumentalist’s early tracks have darted between indie, R&B and psych rock, led by a similarly dextrous vocal: spanning airy falsettos on ‘Www She Hot’, pained groans on ‘homesick’ and playful vocalisations on ‘ZUU (Zoo)’. Following her fun, saturated EP ‘Golden Days, ‘Honey’ represents another left-turn: a more restrained, singer-songwriter-facing collection. While it feels insubstantial as an EP, it is not short on […]

14 January 2025 9

Babymorocco is pop’s new provocateur

Sexy. Crunchy. Electro. Big and muscly. This about sums up the next act of pop’s beefy enfant terrible, Babymorocco. The Bournemouth-born himbo has made quite a splash in the electronic avant-garde this past year, enticing the likes of Jockstrap, The Dare and more into his sordid world of oil-smothered thirst traps and cheeky beats. Now, he promises even more debauchery on debut album ‘Amour’, giving us a peek behind the well-glossed veneer of a star on the rise. The singer […]

14 January 2025 10

The 20 best debut albums of 2024

“Get the Brits out!” chant Belfast rap trio Kneecap. “Jungle is back!” declares Nia Archives. “I want to be me.” Lola Young pleads, a slight crack in her voice. “Is that not allowed?” These are just some of the many resounding statements made by new artists in 2024 – a year where breaking out has become increasingly difficult. You have cost-of-living crises that stifle time, energy and creativity, music venues dwindling by the day, and an industry which expects so […]

14 January 2025 9

Alt Blk Era are the chameleonic sisters making waves in the alt scene

Welcome to the world of Alt Blk Era: a kaleidoscopic project consisting of joint vocalists and sisters Nyrobi and Chaya changing alt-rock like never before. Experimentation is part and parcel of the history of alternative music – we’ve seen it before with The Prodigy, whose sound has famously fluctuated between hardcore punk and electronic rock. But what makes Alt Blk Era different from the rest? In 2023, their debut ‘Freak Show’ EP put the girls on the map in the […]

14 January 2025 8

Odeal: the LVRN-backed rising star redefining R&B with his alté fusion

“Where’s the towels?” Odeal asks as a grey massage table stands in the middle of his dressing room. When we first spoke to the NME 100 alumnus back in 2021, the British-Nigerian artist was carving his own lane to become the “UK’s alté renaissance man” – creating bound-to-be cult classics solo in his room. He found success with every release, starting in his university days when he released the melodic ‘Vicious Cycle (Policeman)’. Right now, he’s gearing up for his […]

14 January 2025 6

Lambrini Girls – ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’ album review: an unapologetic punk statement about the chaos of modern life

The world is currently on fire. Donald Trump has been re-elected as president of the US, women’s rights are under threat, transphobia is rampant across the world and violence continues to rain down on Gaza. To ring in this new year, Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls come bearing a gift: ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’. READ MORE: Lambrini Girls are all bark and tons of bite After opening for IDLES and playing huge festivals like Glasto and Reading and Leeds, […]

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Divorce explore “sexual awakenings” on new single ‘Pill’

Divorce have shared a new single called ‘Pill’ – you can listen to it below. The song marks the latest preview of the Nottingham band’s debut studio album ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’, which arrives on March 7 via Gravity/Capitol (pre-order/pre-save here). “‘Pill’ was written on not my piano at not my flat in not my city; Glasgow to be specific. It’s about sexual awakenings and the absolute thrill of feeling seen properly,” explained co-vocalist and guitarist Tiger Cohen-Towell. “It’s also about […]

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