Tortoise are covering new ground
Chicago’s returning motorik post-rockers Tortoise prove there’s always fresh terrain to explore with ‘Touch’ – a shape-shifting project crafted across cities and pulsing with restless curiosity.
The New Eves: “If people still think we’re whimsical, they won’t after this”
The Brighton band on their debut album, ‘The New Eve Is Rising’, being real, and being ready to get called weird.
Jessie Reyez is learning to live in the moment
Jessie Reyez is unstoppable. She’s collaborated with Lil Yachty and Miguel, penned hits for Dua Lipa and, most recently, released her second book of poetry. Now, after years of laying the groundwork, the Canadian-Colombian is stepping into a radical, fearless confidence.
Jerskin Fendrix on grief, memory and growing up in the sticks
Jerskin Fendrix emerged from south London’s idiosyncratic Windmill scene before being tapped by Yorgos Lanthimos to compose the scores for ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Bugonia’. His second album is a similarly strange and evocative meditation on memory and grief.
TTSSFU makes music for messy nights and messier mornings after
TTSSFU, a.k.a. Wigan-born, Manchester-based Tasmin Stephens, situates her bratty alt-rock firmly in the unchecked messiness of life in your twenties: romance, friendship and, of course, regrettable nights out.