Australian artist Carla Dal Forno writes songs like they’re a garden of sound, a series of elements growing and wrapping around each other in harmony, to create a soft, warm, experimental art-pop glow. Now she’s got a new album on the way, Look Up Sharp, out in October, and the early singles from that indicate […]
Slowthai stands out amongst the artists to emerge from the British scene over the last few years. The Northampton rapper’s (he even filmed a section of the video for single Gorgeous at Northampton Town’s home ground) debut album Nothing Great About Britain came out this year, and delivered on the hype that had been swirling around […]
Fast-rising British pop duo IDER have already spent quite a lot of time in Sweden this year, pitching up in the snow at Åre Sessions in April and popping up again at Way Out West in August. But the capital is still untested territory for them, something they’re resolving in October with a show at […]
Exaggerations come easily in music, but it’s probably not one to say Charli XCX is one of the most influential pop artists of our time. As well as spanning genres, from emo-wave on debut album True Romance to sugary, fairground rock’n’roll on Sucker to her current adventures in glitch, hyper-futurist pop, she’s always been able […]
The rapid rise of Norwegian artist Girl In Red is a tribute to the way the internet has shifted the sands of the classic music career path, especially among the young LGTBQ community. You wouldn’t immediately peg Marie Ulven’s lo-fi, scrappy heartbreak songs as having hit potential, but online’s rapid distribution, the tight communities her […]
Popping up to add some vocal gleam to Father John Misty’s God’s Favorite Customer last year was only the start of a massive 18 months for Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood. As 2019 kicked off, she announced her fourth album Titanic Rising, and when it arrived it became her most-acclaimed yet. A record full of slow, […]
The project of American duo Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, Boy Harsher have marked themselves out as artists of dark strange noise since their emergence in 2014 with the Lesser Man EP. Their world is one of harsh synth music, loaded with intensity and emotion that leans towards the colder, heavier side of human feelings […]
An indie rock double-bill comes to Hus 7 in the form of doom-rock star Therese Lithner and Malmö pop-rock duo Wy at a show this December
Jazz-influenced Norwegian art-pop bands are the trend of our times, and Pom Poko are at the forefront of that movement. Sounding like an explosion in a music shop, the four-piece create music that’s relentlessly energetic, vividly colourful and aggressively irresistible, pop songs as Picasso paintings. Having released their debut album Birthday this year on Bella Union, […]
Bursting out from the rapid channels of online, Clairo turned that momentum into one of the best albums of the year into her dream-pop debut "Immunity"
In terms of acclaim from her peers, 070 Shake’s credentials are impeccable – she’s been the musical guest of choice for artists including Kanye West and Silvana Imam. But she’s far more than a sidekick to famous friends – over the past couple of years she’s been breaking out and building out her own audience, […]
Angel Olsen is a testament to music’s ability to move, often in ways like no other artform. Her songs, whether she’s writing stormy, crashing epics like All Mirrors or soft, quietly personal folk songs like Heart-Shaped Face, hit in a deep, powerful way, proof of art’s hold over us in ways we struggle to understand. […]
Norwegian group Tuvaband, the musical project of Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, have long been known for their ability to stun, with their debut album Soft Drop showcasing her spectacular voice and spectral, captivating songs. On her second outing, I Entered The Void, written after a spell of self-imposed isolation, things have changed. Soft Drop’s ghostly minimalism is […]
Amason have been busy recently. 2019 has seen the dream-pop troupe drop the first part of their Galaxy double-album, with the second half due to touch terra firma in early 2020. Galaxy I sticks to what they do best – slow, starry spellbinding songs - so we can expect more from the second chapter. And you can […]
Amason have been busy recently. 2019 has seen the dream-pop troupe drop the first part of their Galaxy double-album, with the second half due to touch terra firma in early 2020. Galaxy I sticks to what they do best – slow, starry spellbinding songs - so we can expect more from the second chapter. And you can […]
If you miss live music, you can always tune into Låt Live Leva instead. The online festival runs in one-day sessions, generally averaging a new edition every week. Janice, Sabina Ddumba & Molly Hammar, Daniel Adams-Ray and more have hit the stage so far, with more artists set to join in upcoming editions. You can […]
Gigs, as you can imagine, are rare these days, so we’ve had to dip into the world of online streams for gig highlight material. But if you’re going digital, last month’s epic 36-hour stream from Ingrid Studios certainly gave you bang for your buck. Spanning three days (36 continuous hours), it featured performances from deep […]
Rebecka Rolfart is a psych musician with more than an interest in the occult, and she brings a sense of the other world to her band, The Hanged Man. They […]
Photo: Miki Anagrius Missing live jazz at Fasching? Well then, it’s worth keeping an eye on their Facebook page, where they have been, and will continue to be, streaming […]
There’s something very special about this tour from Norwegian pop superstar Astrid S, apart from just the music. Inspired by the global climate movement, she’s made the entire tour climate-neutral, […]
