So you know that moment when a song just takes over your life? Everyone’s talking about it, you can’t escape it, and suddenly the person behind it is everywhere. That’s what happened with Lola Young and her viral track “Messy.” One minute she was a huge rising star people were keeping an eye on, and […]
I’ll be honest, when Temples announced they were moving away from their signature neo-psychedelia sound, I raised a brow. The Kettering lads built their whole reputation on dusty, reverb-drenched guitar work and sprawling synth arrangements. But their fifth album BLISS, released June 26th via V2 Records, isn’t a betrayal of what came before. It’s more
Dirty Blonde review: When Bebe Rexha walked away from Warner Records in January 2026, it felt like the end of something. Instead, it turned out to be the beginning. With Dirty Blonde, released June 12 through Empire Distribution, she’s delivered what might be the most honest project of her career. This is Bebe finally doing
Dinner Party review: You walk into a room and it smells like expensive candles and guitar strings. That’s what listening to Niall Horan’s fourth album feels like. Dinner Party arrives on June 5th as a project that feels deliberately crafted for people who’ve grown tired of pop music feeling like a spreadsheet, all metrics and
Florescence Review: Three singles in, and it’s become impossible to ignore: Maisie Peters has crafted something unexpectedly mature here. Florescence, arriving May 15, feels like the work of someone who’s decided to trade in the sharp, protective wit that defined her early career for something far more vulnerable. At 25, she’s embraced an acoustic warmth
Sweat Review: There’s a peculiar thing that happens when you’ve been in the public eye as long as Melanie C has. You start splitting yourself into versions. The pop star version, the introspective songwriter version, the version who got hurt and had to heal in public through a memoir. Then, sometime around 2018, another version
THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE review: RAYE’s “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.” lands firmly as a statement. Seventeen tracks. Seventy one minutes. Four seasons mapped out across a double vinyl record. A journey that starts with a woman stumbling home from a bar in the autumn rain and ends somewhere warm and golden and hard
American Girls review: Harry Styles has released “American Girls,” the lead single from his fourth studio album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., and it arrives as both a bold statement of intent and a quietly personal confession wrapped inside three minutes of gleaming disco-pop. Out now via Columbia Records, the track marks his first
Arirang Review: After nearly four years apart for mandatory military service, BTS will release ARIRANG on March 20, 2026, their first new studio album since BE in 2020. Named after Korea’s most sacred folk song, the 14-track record arrives with more pre-orders than almost anything in recent memory, a Netflix live concert at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally Review: Harry Styles’ fourth studio album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. already feels like the most daring creative leap of his career. A synthesizer soaked, house inflected dance record born from a year living in Berlin and a near obsession with LCD Soundsystem, it arrives after almost four
The Romantic Review: Look, I’m going to be completely honest with you. When Bruno Mars casually tweeted “my album is done” on January 5th, I nearly dropped my phone. After almost ten years of silence on the solo front, those four words hit differently. Sure, we got Silk Sonic with Anderson .Paak back in 2021,
My Ego Told Me To Review: There is a specific kind of debut album that arrives carrying weight most records never have to carry. Not the weight of expectation from fans or critics, though that is there too, but the weight of years. Of things unsaid. Of rooms where someone kept getting talked over and
Sunday Best review: Nick Jonas arrives somewhat differently with new album, “Sunday Best”, out on 6th Feb. After five years away from solo work, the man who gave us “Jealous” and “Close” has stripped everything back to reveal someone who’s been doing some serious thinking. Sunday Best is his fifth solo album, and based on
Wall of Sound Review: Charli xcx returns with a new song “Wall of Sound”. It is a stunning departure from her recent work that trades the pulsing club energy of Brat for something far more intimate and cinematic. It has been released as part of her upcoming Wuthering Heights soundtrack album and this track finds
Locket Review Madison Beer’s third studio album is her most confident artistic release yet, a dance-inflected pop record that chronicles the complete arc of an intense relationship while showcasing her most technically demanding vocal performances to date. The 11-track “Locket” (stylized in lowercase) releases January 16, 2026, following a groundbreaking year that brought Beer her
everything, in time Review Ten years feels like forever in pop music. Artists release three albums in that span, reinvent themselves twice, maybe even retire and comeback again. Ella Eyre spent that decade learning one brutal lesson: sometimes you have to lose your voice completely to find out what you really want to say. “everything,
Bandaids review: After years of watching Katy Perry chase trends that never quite fit her, “Bandaids” feels like finally getting to hear the artist she’s been trying to rediscover. This isn’t the neon bubblegum pop or the forced EDM experimentation we’ve heard recently. Instead, it’s a guitar-driven track that strips everything back to raw emotion,
Almost Review Lewis Capaldi’s “Almost” catches you off guard right from the start. This is the third single from his Survive EP, and it breaks away from his usual piano ballads by putting an acoustic guitar front and center. What really gets me is how deceptively simple it sounds at first, just voice and fingerpicked
SOFT Review LANY’s sixth studio album drops October 10, 2025, marking the indie-pop duo’s most vulnerable work yet. Born from frontman Paul Klein’s near-fatal car accident in June 2024, “SOFT” is a 10-track meditation on choosing emotional openness in a hardening world. The album represents both a return to the band’s synth-drenched roots and a
5 Seconds of Summer return with their new single “NOT OK” which was released in September 2024 as the lead single from their sixth album “Everyone’s a Star!” which drops on November 14th. Here, I take a deep dive! Song Analysis (NOT OK Review) “NOT OK” for me marks their most audacious departure in years
