pop

June will mark 3 years since the release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, X. Being the fastest-selling album of 2014, with rave reviews to match, Sheeran always had a lot to live up to. After a year of social media silence and an underwhelming announcement to the new album,...

Los Angeles electro-pop singer HANA is braced for success. She’s toured Shamir, Lana Del Rey and Purity Ring, and is self-proclaimed bessie-mates with Grimes. Last Friday she finally released her much anticipated debut HANA EP. In the wake of this release, we caught up with HANA before she’s makes...

Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, is an artist who attracts a particular type of crowd. They’re not cool, nor are they trying to be – they’re not averse to cheese, in fact they lap it up in spades, and most of all they’re out to have fun, and lots of it. Grimes may...

Aside from the Edward Cullen-esque album title, The 1975’s second album, I Like It When You Sleep for You Are Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, is a satisfactory follow up to their debut self titled album. Tracks ‘Somebody Else’ and ‘Please Be Naked’ keep up with the same ethereal sounds...

With inspiration ranging from David Bowie and Foals to David Attenborough and the Eurovision Song Contest, Habitats’ second EP was never going to be a bland affair. Jungles poses a well developed, intriguing sound which only furthers the tropical groove in which the band does so well to exploit. ...

This article may be biased on the basis that seeing Jack Garratt live supporting Mumford and Sons at the Leeds Arena last year was one of those experiences that make you feel like flicking through your own achievements as you watch one versatile, multi-instrumentalist (who is barely a few...

Foxes’ (a.k.a Louisa Allen’s) new pop-filled album offers juxtaposition between sweet pseudo-dance music and often dramatic break up lyrics.  However it is the slower, stripped down songs which really steal the show.  Most pop songs these days have some element of dance music and the opening tracks of this...