Benjamin Bahr

Nina Simone’s I Put A Spell On You: Where Beauty Meets Defiance

Released at the height of the civil rights era, I Put a Spell on You reveals Nina Simone in transition — elegant, defiant, and impossible to pin down.

Benjamin Bahr

Miles Davis — Kind of Blue: The Cool Revolution That Never Ends

Miles Davis assembled a dream team for Kind of Blue—Coltrane, Cannonball, Evans, and more—creating spacious, timeless jazz that still defines modern music.

Ben Preece

Cocteau Twins' 'Heaven or Las Vegas': A Timeless Masterpiece That Redefined Dream Pop

Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas transformed dream pop, influenced generations of artists, and became one of the most timeless albums ever

Ben Preece

Wolf Alice, The Clearing Interview: Out of the Woods, Into Their Boldest Album Yet

Wolf Alice return with their fourth album, The Clearing — a bold, cohesive reinvention that proves Britain’s best band are only getting stronger.

Ben Preece

Mk.gee, The Reluctant Virtuoso and His Dream Police

We trace Mk.gee's rise, his sound, and Two Star & The Dream Police, the record that’s already reshaping what a breakthrough can look like.

Ben Preece

How Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited Redefined Rock and Roll

No artist embodied this spirit of rock and roll defiance quite like Bob Dylan in 1965.

Benjamin Bahr

Fela Kuti's Live! with Ginger Baker: The Sound of a Movement Mid-Riot

Fela Kuti’s Live! with Ginger Baker is raw, urgent, and revolutionary—a riot in rhythm that still hits like a warning shot 50+ years on.

Ben Preece

Metronomy's The English Riviera: Seagulls, Synths & Soft Power

Metronomy’s The English Riviera is a cult classic of British electronic pop—sun-drenched, subtly weird, and quietly influential.

Lauren Tucker

10 Years of 'Tales': A Conversation with The Peep Tempel’s Stewart Raynor

To mark 10 years of The Peep Tempel's second album, Tales, we caught up with bassist Stewart Raynor for a chat.