This article was originally published in The Indiependent's May 2021 issue, available to purchase here. TikTok queer icon girl in red released her debut album if i could make it go quiet on 30 April via AWAL. The Norwegian artist—real name Marie Ulven—insisted in an interview with HYPEBAE that: “The record is not a conceptual … Continue reading Album Review: if i could make it go quiet // girl in red
This article was originally published on The Indiependent Tomorrow Ed Cosens makes his debut onto Sheffield’s music scene with solo album Fortunes Favour, having hereunto forged a successful career as a guitarist and co-songwriter in Reverend and the Makers. Reverend and the Makers are known for their rousing working-class anthems, with the band’s artistry often overshadowed by frontman … Continue reading Album Review: Fortunes Favour // Ed Cosens
This article was originally published on The Indiependent When Charles Darwin sat down to write On the Origin of Species I’m going to hedge my bets and say that he didn’t anticipate the figure described in ‘Modern Man’, the first track from Death By Unga Bunga’s raucous new album, Heavy Male Insecurity, out today (12 February) via Jansen Records. … Continue reading Album Review: Heavy Male Insecurity // Death By Unga Bunga
This article was originally published on The Indiependent A lot has happened since Happyness released their 2017 sophomore album, Write In. The band has parted ways with founding member, Benji Compston, and drummer Ash Kenazi has adopted a drag queen alter ego after coming out as gay. Their new record, Floatr, released on 1 May via Infinit Suds, is a … Continue reading Album Review: Floatr // Happyness
New album Lover sees Taylor Swift shake off the bitterness of 2017’s reputation with album opener ‘I Forgot That You Existed’ proclaiming indifference to the public feuding between her and Kanye West: “It isn’t love, it isn’t hate it’s just indifference”. Yet the fact that the next track ‘Cruel Summer’ shares a name with a West GOOD Music compilation album is … Continue reading Taylor Swift’s New Album Is A Love Letter To Herself
“What would I say to you now?” Quinn frontman and The Indiependent’s own Sam Lambeth wistfully asks in ‘Williamsburg’, a track from the Birmingham-based band’s EP, Crush. In many ways the hook from this song encapsulates the underlying theme of the record; merging power pop with saccharine lyrics about lost love and bad decision making, Crush is an … Continue reading EP Review: Crush // Quinn
Tom Odell’s sophomore album, Wrong Crowd, has finally arrived, three years after the release of his debut, A Long Way Down. The twenty-five year old singer-songwriter became a household name when he won the Critics Choice award at the Brits in 2013, but he only really cemented himself in the hearts of the nation in 2014, when … Continue reading Album Review: Wrong Crowd // Tom Odell
DIIV’s second album, Is The Is Are, is the product of Zachary Cole Smith’s life over the past few years – from his widely-reported arrest back in 2013 (where he was arrested alongside girlfriend Sky Ferreira, for possession of drugs and driving a stolen car without a license), to his struggles with heroin and writer’s … Continue reading Album Review: Is The Is Are // DIIV
Crafting an ethereal, mystical landscape with her haunting vocal style, Halsey has seen her debut album propelled to number nine in the UK charts and number two in the US following its release on 28th August. Her success with Badlands is testament to the record’s pulsating aura, which consumes the listener and – at times … Continue reading Halsey haunts on her Badlands debut
If FIDLAR’s self-titled 2013 release was a kid in your high school class then it’d be the guy with no regard for the dress code, who cut class to go smoke a spliff in the bike shed, and was found at the skate park on the weekends doing more of the same. Their sophomore effort, … Continue reading FIDLAR, not too cool for school anymore
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