Kate Solomon
How to go freelance without freaking out
Kate Solomon guides you through the need-to-knows before you decide to go freelance.
Biig Piig // New Sounds 2019
We could hit you with terms like 'neo-soul' and 'sounds a bit like Erykah Badu' but that's doing a bit of a disservice to the kind of deconstructed hip-hop-jazz hybrid Jess Smyth has created.
Yung Lean // Live Review
We went to see 22 year old Swedish rapper and black metal aficionado, Yung Lean, at O2 Academy Brixton.
Grassroots Music Venues // Sounds Like London
We chat to three incredible female Grassroots Music Venue owners as part of our Sounds Like London series.
Sigrid // New Sounds 2018
New Sounds 2018 carrying the Norwegian pop flag this year is Sigrid and we couldn't be happier.
St Vincent – MASSEDUCTION // Album Review
Kate Solomon and Hassan Anderson deconstruct Annie Clark's latest LP.
Girlhood // Interview
Leading our New Sounds issue, Girlhood reveal contrasting tastes, concepts and debuting their live show.
Kate Solomon // Penny For Your Thoughts
"A lightning rod for dickheads", Kate Solomon discusses buying her first guitar
SOHN – Rennen // Album Review
Rennen is an exercise in restraint, an encyclopedia of skittering percussion and the sparsest synth settings available
Daniel Woolhouse – What’s That Sound? // Album Review
Deptford Goth has changed his name and just as well for all the voracious Deptford Goths keeping a beady eye out for a new record that sounds like his old records because this one doesn’t
D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated // Album Review
Utopia Defeated is a storm-cloud with the sun behind it; dark but with the promise of light
Japanese Breakfast // Interview
Michelle Zauner talks tragedy, Sufjan and her debut album Psychopomp
Tegan and Sara – Love You To Death // Album Review
Tegan and Sara seem to have taken the formula they came up with on 2013’s Heartthrob and honed it, added some extra shimmer, infused it with even more love and heartache and come up with the world’s catchiest bops
LUH – Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing // Album Review
Joining forces with Dutch artist girlfriend Ebony Hoorn has lent Roberts a lighter touch, a synthier sound and maybe even something approaching peace
Pet Shop Boys – Super // Album Review
The one thing Superis not is tired; it crackles with energy and is at once lusty, sad and amazing