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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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