Music

Pro Dreams is a surprising album that’s much more than what it appears to be. It’s a solid and escapist offering from the relatively new band FutureofWhat. The slow dreamy pace of this debut album lulls the listener into a [read more]

Indie-pop princess Florrie made a triumphant return to the London live scene last night, just a few weeks after the release of her latest single, Too Young to Remember. Florrie’s musical journey has been a long one: she’s [read more]

You may know Kosheen from their (by now old-school) 2001 hits Hide U and Catch; last night they made a triumphant return to performing live at Koko. The band played a mixture of old and newer stuff (appropriately for a band whose [read more]

Fall Out Boy have always written anthems. American Beauty/American Psycho is no different, with each stand-out track able to hold its own. Patrick Stump’s voice has a vulnerability to it that is heartfelt and pure, which is what [read more]

Canadian indie-pop band Alvvays released their eponymous debut album last July. Since then, they’ve clearly built up quite a following: Scala was stuffed to its labyrinthine gills last night with young couples, and music [read more]

Moving from the barest of vocals to a skeletal, cinematic wonderland of sound, A Lesson Unlearnt showers the listener with a deluge of haunting atmosphere and thick R&B groove. Unlike many frenetically paced electronic records, Until [read more]

Hayseed Dixie formed in 2001 with the release of their debut album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC, in which they invented their own genre: “rockgrass”, a mixture of hard rock and bluegrass. The band consists of singer John [read more]

Panda Bear is 36-year-old American Noah Lennox, formerly of Animal Collective, now in a solo career five albums deep. This offering is swathed in warm, old-fashioned synths and drum patterns consciously nodding to 90s hip hop acts like a [read more]

If you ever wondered what Florence and the Machine would sound like merged with Lana Del Ray, search no further. Your answer comes in the form of Owlle: a French solo artist whose red fringe and blue eyes, paired with her hauntingly silky [read more]

It must be hard for an established artist from a successful band to step out from that self-made world and forge a new iconic sound. Gerard Way has had such success with emo giant rockers My Chemical Romance but has now taken the brave [read more]