pop

‘Call Me Maybe’ was, like it or otherwise, song of the summer 2012. Me personally; I was an ‘otherwise.’ While Jepsen seemed refreshingly humble alongside a circus of media-savvy peers and the song was essentially catchy – it was just too glossy and obnoxious to be particularly likeable. And that’s...

The Weeknd is, for me, a hit or miss artist. Real name Abel Tesfaye, the man has a unique sound and a strong voice but his 2011 mixtapes were mostly shallow, mistaking lewdness for sexiness and too concerned with being trendy and mysterious to have any staying power. His...

Dream pop can often result in music all too literal: sleep inducing, painfully self-indulgent and reverb caked. As one of the leading trends in 21st century pop music, too much has fuzzy naval gazing been used as an excuse for lazy song writing and melody deficiency. Baltimore duo Beach...

‘Destroyer’ is an unusual name for a band which doesn’t make music with pentangles on their album covers… but then Destroyer is not a conventional band. The Canadian outfit first released in 1996 and this is their tenth record; but the band aren’t tiring. In fact, they only really...

Florence Welch is quite a presence. Put her on the stage down your local and she’d knock the head of your ale and most likely send the old faithful running home to the sultry sounds of Santana. Put her on a stage at Glastonbury and she’s the most popular...

It’s unlikely that the subject of this article needs an introduction, after the year Taylor Swift has had. Not only did her first official pop album become the biggest selling album of 2014, despite only being released in October, but for Taylor Swift, it has also been a year...

On first listen, Purity Ring come across as some sort of otherworldly, mysterious, maybe even alien creatures. It’s difficult to pin down why, but there’s something about hearing what sounds like a child sing about sea water in her thighs or about inviting someone to ‘cut open your sternum’ so...