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OCTOBER 2022
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alternative hip-hop / jazz rap: Loyle Carner: hugo. Abrasive lyricism at his most brutally honest, a capture of Carner’s most retrospective.
alternative jazz-rock / lounge rock: Arctic Monkeys: The Car. A timeless collective of debonair lounge-rock worthy for any French black noir film.
alternative hip-hop / jazz rap: Little Simz: The Mercury Magic of Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert. powerful and emotive. A masterpiece of an album worthing of winning this years’ Mercury Prize.
grunge / post-punk: October Drift: I Don’t Belong Anywhere. Visceral post-grunge brood with a worthy sophomore album.
grunge / post-punk: Gilla Band: Most Normal. Experimental workings out at their best, Gilla Band return in sparkling form with true gritty, Irish noise.
lo-fi / indie pop: Easy Life: MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE… pockets of lo-fi “pop-bop” delight in an album littered with no compromise.
alternative rock: Pizza Crunch: That Serene Age. One of the most exciting prospects to leave Scotland in the alternative rock sphere. Get involved on a need-to-know basis.
hip-hop / rap: Kid Cudi: Entergalactic. A wonderous soundtrack met with a dazzling animation to match.
nu-metal / hardcore: Slipknot: The End, So Far. The end of an era for some, the start of something great for many. It’s safe to say Slipknot are eroding the doubters.
indie-pop / dance: Superorganism: World Wide Pop. High energy fun rinsed with plenty of feel-good moments. Blast it to space.
SEPTEMBER 2022
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alternative / rock: Pulled Apart By Houses: Reality Cheques. A fresh start with a fresh album.
alternative / post-punk: Sports Team: Gulp! A drizzle of light entertainment, the likes of Sports Team cannot be categorised per genre.
post-punk: Kid Kapichi: Here’s What You Could Have Won. True national spirit uniting one voice for change with straight-edged punk rock.
alternative / rock: Dead Pony: War Boys. A collective of battle-ready chorus to recharge the batteries.
indie-pop: Sunflower Bean: Handful of Sugar. A perfect backdrop for a coastal drive or a hippie commercial, it’s a worthy listen either way.
rock/hardcore: The Devil Wears Prada: Colour Decay. A deserving victory parade of post-hardcore rock laced with an experimental lick.
alternative post-punk: Porridge Radio: Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky. A fresh and poignant perspective to a world as confusing as ever.
indie rock: The Amazons: How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? The third studio album sees the band hit their first NO.5 album in the charts, as we see the same winning formula.
electronic dance: Two Door Cinema Club: Keep On Smiling
punk rock: WACO: Rock Spirit Absolute Joy
AUGUST 2022
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hard rock: Muse: Will of the People
emo-rap: $uicideboy$: Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation
alternative post-punk: Baby Strange: World Below
rap: Aitch: Close To Home
punk: KAMORA: Feel Alive (singles review)
punk: Shark Bait: Late Bloomer (singles review)
alternative rock: KASABIAN: The Alchemist’s Euphoria
alternative: Gorillaz: Demon Days
post-punk: BODEGA: Broken Equipment
electronic: M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
JULY 2022
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punk rock: Viagra Boys: Cave World
blues rock: Jack White: Entering Heaven Alive
indie rock: Jamie T: The Theory of Whatever
jazz rap/lo-fi hip hop: Kofi Stone: Nobody Cares Till Everybody Does
jazz rap: Loyle Carner: Hate (single review)
hard rock: Shinedown: Planet Zero
indie alternative: Paolo Nutini: Last Night in the Bittersweet
JUNE 2022
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indie-pop/disco: Foals: This is Yours
lo-fi indie: your artist spotlight:// VALA.
Alternative-Electronic: Bad Sounds: Escaping from a Violent Time, Vol. 1
MAY 2022
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ROCK: Liam Gallagher: C’MON YOU KNOW
NU-FUNK/ACID JAZZ: Cory Wong: Elevator Music For Elevated Mood
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: Everything Everything: RAW DATA FEEL
ALTERNATIVE: Florence + The Machine: Dance Fever
SKATE PUNK: GNARWOLVES.
ALTERNATIVE: Arcade Fire: We
GRUNGE ROCK: Artist Spotlight: Dinosaur Pile-Up
INDIE ROCK: Blossoms: Ribbon Around The Bomb
APRIL 2022
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INDIE ALTERNATIVE: Single Spotify: Young Excitement by Pizza Crunch
INDIE ALTERNATIVE: Single Spotlight: Bad Friday by Everything Everything
ALTERNATIVE: Artist Spotlight: This is Alice Merton
YOUR WEEKLY MIXTAPE #1 17 April
ROCK: QOTSA: …Like Clockwork Album Review
GRUNGE/ROCK: Jack White: Fear of the Dawn Album Review
INDIE/ROCK: A Delectable Summer Starter … This is Daydream Runaways
BLACK POP: Making GRAMMYs History: Jon Batiste and the Importance of Celebrating Black Culture
RnB/SOUL: Our “Slop n Soul” Artist: This is the work of Curtis Harding
ELECTRONIC WAVE: Artist Spotlight: Bonobo
FUNK ROCK: John Frusciante’s Welcoming Return … and Red Hot Chilli Peppers “Unlimited Love”
MARCH 2022
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INDIE ROCK: The “Magik” of Bloc Party: The Art of Alpha Games
POP PUNK: The “Downfall” of Machine Gun Kelly: mainstream sellout
ALTERNATIVE ROCK: Black Foxxes: Reiði Album Review
ALTERNATIVE ROCK: OSCAR LANG
ALTERNATIVE:
FEBRUARY 2022
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POP PUNK: How Avril Lavigne Has Turned Back Time: The Pop-Punk Revitalisation
INDIE ROCK: White Lies: “As I Try Not To Fall Apart” – Album Review
FOLK ROCK: Frank Turner: “FTHC” – Album Review
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: alt-J: “The Dream” – Album Review
ROCK: Black Country, New Road: “Ants From Up Here” – Album Review
POP PUNK: Jack Kays’: Blending With Substance
JANUARY 2022
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HARD ROCK: Down and Dirty with: Tigercub
BALLAD ROCK: Creeper: “American Noir” – Album Review
INDIE ROCK: The Wombats “Fix Yourself, Not the World” Album Review
INDIE ROCK: Spector: “Now or Whenever” Album Review
ALTERNATIVE ROCK: Twin Atlantic: “Transparency” Album Review
SYNTH POP: The Weeknd: “Dawn FM” Album Review
December 2021
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INDIE: ISLAND: “Yesterday Park” Album Review
INDIE POP: Singles Review: Arlie’s karma.
POP PUNK: MOD SUN “Internet Killed the Rockstar” Album Review
November 2021
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ROCK: Nothing But Thieves: “Moral Panic” Album Review
POP: Adele: ’30’: Album Review
PUNK: IDLES “CRAWLER”: Album Review
ROCK: Angels & Airwaves: “Lifeforms” Album Review
POP PUNK: POORSTACY: ‘Party At The Cemetery’ Album Review
October 2021
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INDIE ALTERNATIVE: Sam Fender: ‘Seventeen Going Under’ Album Review
ROCK: Don Broco: ‘Amazing Things’ Album Review
ROCK: Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes: ‘Sticky’ Album Review
FUNK/JAZZ: Your Next Artist: Too Many Zooz
INDIE: Artist Spotlight: Everything Everything
RAP/GRIME: Artist Spotlight: Burna Boy
POP PUNK: jxdn – “Tell Me About Tomorrow” Album Review
Most Recent: September 2021
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ROCK: Artist Spotlight: Black Honey
GOSPEL ROCK: Sleep Token – “Your Place Will Become Your Tomb” – Album Review
PROGRESSIVE ROCK: Artist Spotlight: Plini
POP ROCK: Imagine Dragons – ‘Mercury Act 1’ Album Review
August 2021
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HIP HOP: Kanye West – DONDA Album Review
POP: Lorde – ‘Solar Power’ Album Review
POP ROCK: Imagine Dragons’: Return of the Indie Mythicals
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: Glass Animals: DREAMLAND
POP PUNK: KID BRUNSWICK – XFOREVER Album Review
Most Recent: JULY 2021
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POP: Billie Eilish: ‘Happier Than Ever’ Album Review
POP ROCK: John Mayer – ‘Sob Rock’ Album Review
POP PUNK: Willow – ‘lately I feel EVERYTHING’ Album Review
ALTERNATIVE ROCK: YONAKA – ‘Seize The Power’: Album Review
ROCK: Artist Spotlight: Badflower
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: Album of the Summer: Arlo Parks’ Collapsed in Sunbeams
JUNE 2021
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ALTERNATIVE RAP: Tyler, The Creator – ‘CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’: Album Review
HARD ROCK: Artist Spotlight: Black Peaks
POP PUNK: Artist Spotlight: Kenny Hoopla
HARD ROCK: Cleopatrick – ‘BUMMER’ Album Review
GOSPEL ROCK: Sleep Token – ‘Sundowning’ Album Review
MAY 2021
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INDIE RAP POP: easy life’s ‘life’s a beach’ Album Review
INTERNATIONAL: Twenty One Pilots – ‘Scaled and Icy’ Album Review
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: Everything Everything: New Explosion of Life
BLUES ROCK: The Black Keys – ‘Delta Kream’ Album Review
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (ROCK): Strawberry Lace
FOLK: Gerry Cinnamon: The True Story Teller of Music
HARD ROCK: The Influence of: Pixies
ROCK: Black Pistol Fire: Look Alive
POP: Billie Eilish: Blurry World
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APRIL 2021
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ROCK: Royal Blood – ‘Typhoons’ Album Review
ROCK: Thirty Seconds to Mars: The Majesty of ‘A Beautiful Lie’
INDIE ROCK: The Journey of Foals: What Went Down
JAZZ: Jamie Cullum: Profession of Jazz
INDIE: Alt-J: The World of Experimental Sound
INDIE ROCK: One Big Year: The Snuts
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: The Magic of Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
HARD ROCK: Artist Spotlight: cleopatrick
Most Recent: MARCH 2021
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INDIE: Ben Howard’s Collections from the Whiteout
ALTERNATIVE INDIE: Kings of Leon’s When You See Yourself
POP: Aloe Blacc’s All Love Everything
LOCAL: Artist Spotlight: Chris Pidsley
LOCAL: Artist Spotlight: Michael Gallagher
HIP HOP/SPOKEN WORD RAP: The Rise of UK Grime: Dave + Ghetts
Most Recent: FEBRUARY 2021
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METAL ROCK: Architect’s For Those That Wish To Exist
POP: Love Story: Why Taylor Swift is a Genius
INDIE LO-FI: The Rise of Powfu: death bed
ROCK: Foo Fighter’s Medicine At Midnight
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January 2021
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ROCK: The Downfall of Blink-182
ROCK: TYPHOONS: The Evolution of Royal Blood
ELECTRONIC POP: The Weeknd’s AFTER HOURS
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Autumn/Winter 2020
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POP PUNK: Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to my Downfall
ROCK: Biffy Clyro’s A Celebration of Endings
LOCAL: KAYLYDE’s Shadows
ROCK: Enter Shikari’s Nothing is True & Everything is Possible
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