DIY Magazine • 1st September 2021 Review: Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen Model Citizen’ takes everything that has driven the scene forward and injects an unapologetic - and very welcome - Gen Z spin.
DIY Magazine • 26th August 2021 Review: Chvrches - Screen Violence Much like their complicated relationship with screens - the record also created across the Atlantic during a pandemic - ‘Screen Violence’ marries visceral anger and empowerment. The result is their most euphoric rallying cry to date.
DIY Magazine • 6th August 2021 Review: Foxing – Draw Down The Moon A collection of the best of what has come before, ‘Draw Down The Moon’ finds coherence in its unashamed madness.
DIY Magazine • 28th July 2021 Review: Creeper - American Noir By further exploring their dramatic side, Creeper continue to blur the lines between rock, pop and musical theatre.
DIY Magazine • 9th July 2021 Review: Half Waif - Mythopoetics In direct contrast to the album’s title - itself related to myth - the fifth Half Waif album is instead an unfiltered discovery of Nandi’s place and role in the world.
DIY Magazine • 24th June 2021 Review: Lucy Dacus - Home Video With ‘Home Video’, a product of isolation and a musical reckoning with her past, she confronts her history.
DIY Magazine • 11th June 2021 Review: AFI - Bodies In fully embracing theatrics, their new wave leanings, and the unquestionable punk legacy, the band have landed on a sound both contemporary and unmistakably theirs.
DIY Magazine • 11th June 2021 Review: Garbage - No Gods No Masters Both rhythmic and chaotic, it mirrors the frenetic turbulence of the times that have inspired it.
DIY Magazine • 7th May 2021 Review: Salem - Salem II Salem II’ conjures images of vampires in dive bars, the audible partner for the likes of Tarantino’s ‘From Dusk Til Dawn’ or any of the ‘80s twisted love stories.
DIY Magazine • 7th May 2021 Review: MAN ON MAN - MAN ON MAN It delivers a positive view of a genuine and lasting relationship removed from the artificiality that often surrounds gay representation, led by two creatives who this far into their musical career continue to break the mould.
DIY Magazine • 30th April 2021 Review: Glüme - The Internet That ‘The Internet’ is intangible is remarkably fitting for LA newcomer Glüme’s otherworldly sound, sitting somewhere between the concise theatrics of St Vincent, the stylised melancholia of Lana Del Rey, and the early morning hours in a Berlin nightclub.
DIY Magazine • 8th April 2021 Review: Skullcrusher - Storm In Summer “I thrust my foot through the windshield,” Skullcrusher’s Helen Ballentine sings with delicate brutality on the opener of her folk-meets-bedroom-indie EP, ‘Storm In Summer’.
DIY Magazine • 2nd April 2021 Review: Nasty Cherry - The Movie It’s like everything that has come before was just the pilot, and now it’s time for the real show.
DIY Magazine • 28th March 2021 Review: Citizen - Life In Your Glass World “I hope you learn to love yourself,” Citizen offer in the album’s closing moment, having spent almost half a decade re-evaluating their own influences and defiantly doing things the exact way they want.
DIY Magazine • 28th March 2021 Review: serpentwithfeet - DEACON As the world continues to wrestle with the individual freedoms of the Black, LGBT+ and combined communities, ‘DEACON’ looks for hope in love, much like in the spirituality that birthed it.
DIY Magazine • 26th March 2021 Review: NewDad - Waves NewDad deliver with notable confidence, not just in their sound but in their understanding of wide-reaching human emotion and the unpredictable impact of others.
DIY Magazine • 9th March 2021 Review: Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me The confidence and togetherness on display outweighs that of its predecessor, and early adopters will already have welcomed the band’s shifting direction or moved on.
DIY Magazine • 26th February 2021 Review: Julien Baker - Little Oblivions A soundtrack for those searching for hope in difficult times, particularly when the wider world has removed easy distraction from the pain.
DIY Magazine • 1st February 2021 Review: Celeste - Not Your Muse Celeste begs for a return to smoky, underground stages, and much like the stars that paved her way, carries with her the bona fide class to make it all her own.
DIY Magazine • 21st January 2021 Review: Lande Hekt – Going To Hell It cements ‘Going To Hell’ as a celebration of personal freedom, and the unwavering right for people to be afforded the opportunity to be comfortable in themselves.
