DIY • 22nd June 2022 Review: MUNA - MUNA A celebratory expression of queer love that loses none of the trio’s magic.
DIY • 15th June 2022 Review: Perfume Genius - Ugly Season An album in its truest form, a record to sit with and take in as one whole.
DIY • 18th May 2022 Review: Charlie Hickey - Nervous At Night ‘Nervous At Night’ places Charlie at a crossroads, largely in-keeping with its coming of age tale.
DIY • 12th May 2022 Review: The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention It all feels remarkably familiar, but given the record’s pedigree, that’s far from a bad thing.
DIY • 11th May 2022 Review: Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter Change, escape and identity are not easy things to navigate, and ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is the dark, unsettling, sprawling beauty that comes out of it.
DIY • 28th April 2022 Review: Let’s Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons The pair have found the sonic balance between friendship, unity, and individual identity.
DIY • 6th April 2022 Review: The Linda Lindas - Growing Up A record that reaches across the generational divide through both its mastery of sound and the universality of its stories.
DIY • 1st April 2022 Review: Pillow Queens - Leave The Light On Intimacy is replaced here by an urgent yearning for something bigger.
DIY • 9th March 2022 Review: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects ‘Classic Objects’ walks the line between art and humanity, between nature and fabrication, between the real and the conceptual.
DIY Magazine • 4th March 2022 Review: Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS A true representation of its creator; simultaneously delicate, fierce, vulnerable and fiery.
DIY Magazine • 9th February 2022 Review: Shamir - Heterosexuality The record bounds between unfaltering self-belief and fundamental pain.
DIY Magazine • 4th February 2022 Review: Mitski - Laurel Hell You can’t help but feel that it’s all one broken brick away from tumbling down, which is exactly why it plays out with such delicate urgency.
DIY Magazine • 28th January 2022 Review: MØ - Motordrome No longer simply living to survive, MØ is having fun being herself.
DIY Magazine • 7th January 2022 Review: Twin Atlantic - Transparency It may not be the most polished or serious piece of art to emerge from the pandemic, but it’s impossible to deny the sheer amount of personality and unashamed frivolity bubbling out of ‘Transparency’.
DIY Magazine • 3rd December 2021 Review: No Rome - It’s All Smiles It cements Rome’s desire to mess with pop convention, and much like his Dirty Hit stablemates serves to further expand any preconceived boundaries of the genre.
DIY • 11th November 2021 Review: Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin There’s an expert tenderness to her stories and their delivery.
DIY • 22nd October 2021 Review: Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After Eleven tracks that brilliantly capture the turbulence and dysfunction of the past eighteen months.
DIY • 22nd October 2021 Review: Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters A collection of sun-kissed moments and hazy memories, free from judgement and firmly rooted in place.
DIY Magazine • 6th October 2021 Review: James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart A record that simultaneously expands on his delicate production and sees him fully embrace his singer-songwriter alter ego.
