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Album Review: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’
On his collaborative album with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, the producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and visionary turns what he hears into...
Izzy Felton
Feb 10, 20213 min read


Album Review: RY X – ‘Live from the Royal Albert Hall’
In an unlikely but majestic collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, RY X (Ryan Cuming)...
Amrit Virdi
Feb 9, 20213 min read


Album Review: Celeste – ‘Not Your Muse’
Responding to the hype attributed to her from all corners of the music industry, Celeste has delivered a debut album that outperforms all...
Joe Hughes
Feb 6, 20213 min read


Album Review: Black Country, New Road – ‘For the first time’
Teetering on the border between profundity and absurdity, Black Country, New Road’s For the first time is a sprawling feat of a debut....

Louis Griffin
Feb 5, 20214 min read


Album Review: You Me At Six – ‘SUCKAPUNCH’
Known for their melody-dense, radio rock, You Me At Six tread down a darker path on their seventh studio album SUCKAPUNCH. Featuring...
Gemma Cockrell
Feb 3, 20214 min read


Album Review: Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’
Percussive, sharp-edged, and soaked in complexity, On All Fours is everything we could’ve hoped for from Goat Girl’s long-sought...
Freya Martin
Jan 31, 20214 min read


EP Review: Fickle Friends – ‘Weird Years (Season 1)’
Reliable indie-pop to lift dwindling spirits, Weird Years (Season 1) marks the first instalment of Fickle Friends’ incoming sophomore...
Gemma Cockrell
Jan 28, 20213 min read


FOCUS: Night Bus Revival
Compact yet expansive and dealing in oxymorons, the debut EP from Nottingham alt-folk mogul, Night Bus Revival, is a delicately balanced...
Matthew Andrews
Jan 25, 20214 min read


The Mic Recommends
New year, same Mic Recommends – back to rounding up the biggest and best tracks of the past week (or in this case two!). Our first...
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Jan 25, 20215 min read


Interview: Django Django
In the build up to the release of their hotly-anticipated fourth LP Glowing In The Dark, Alex Duke caught up with Django Django members...
Alex Duke
Jan 17, 20215 min read


EP Review: Frank Iero and The Future Violents – ‘Heaven is a Place, This is a Place’
Deliberately disordered and yet so evidently crafted with total precision, Frank Iero finds his identity on the achingly beautiful Heaven...
Charlie Farrer
Jan 17, 20214 min read


Album Review: Shame – ‘Drunk Tank Pink’
The weirder, wiser cousin to 2018’s Songs of Praise, Shame’s latest export melds a menacing tone and relatable Gen Z musings into a...
Ben Preston
Jan 16, 20215 min read


Single Review: Tragic – ‘Dishonoured Gentleman’
Spokespeople for a frustrated generation, Northampton punk trio, Tragic, are a band exceedingly comfortable in discussing the...

Olivia Stock
Jan 12, 20213 min read


Interview: Passenger
A mainstay in the world of soft acoustic-pop, Passenger’s work manages to capture an indescribable world of emotion; each sparkling track...
Lilith Hudson
Jan 8, 20218 min read


Album Review: ‘Home Protests’ – Mystery Jets
Revitalising and reimagining some of history’s greatest protest songs for the blighted contemporary age, Mystery Jets’ Home Protests is a...
Izzy Felton
Jan 6, 20213 min read


Album Review: Deafheaven – ‘10 Years Gone’
A shimmering, seething product of an unstable year, Deafheaven’s brand new live record, 10 Years Gone, commemorates a decade of the...
Matt Taylor
Dec 17, 20203 min read


EP Review: Foster The People – ‘In The Darkest Nights, Let The Birds Sing’
Los Angeles-based indie pop icons Foster The People are back with an easy-listening six-song EP. The only problem? It’s abysmal. The...
Alex Duke
Dec 17, 20202 min read


Album Review: Taylor Swift – ‘evermore’
A surprise sister album to the enchanting folklore, one of music’s most loved starlets Taylor Swift weaves lucid tales of love,...
Amrit Virdi
Dec 15, 20203 min read


Album Review: Ólafur Arnalds – ‘some kind of peace’
Existing at the bashful intersection of neoclassical, ambient, and EDM, the latest project from Icelandic producer Ólafur Arnalds, some...
Amber Frost
Dec 10, 20203 min read


The Mic Recommends...
On the last weekend before we descend into the festivities of the winter period – though relatively little is likely to change other than...
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Nov 29, 20205 min read
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