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.
DIY Magazine • 14th December 2020 Review: Taylor Swift - evermore There are lyricists and there are storytellers, and in a year of uncertainty and inconsistency, Taylor Swift has emerged as the most assured songwriter of a generation.
DIY Magazine • 30th October 2020 Review: MOURN – Self Worth MOURN have embraced the uncontrollable chaos in order to find their own relief, as messy as that may be.
DIY Magazine • 30th October 2020 Review: Nothing - The Great Dismal On a record that outwardly calls for the end of us, there’s plenty to live for, even if it’s simply the subtle beauty of Nothing.
DIY Magazine • 8th October 2020 Review: Touché Amoré - Lament With the clouds lifted even a little, there’s a new world ready to explore; one with as many ups and downs as before, but one in which Jeremy and band feel more resilient and less restrained than ever.
DIY Magazine • 28th September 2020 Review: Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension Not so much a call to arms as an exploration of the individual’s ability to disassociate from the norm.
DIY Magazine • 24th September 2020 Review: Deftones - Ohms If any of Deftones’ previous records are guilty of lacking focus, ‘Ohms’ is certainly safe from future vitriol.
DIY Magazine • 24th September 2020 Review: Pillow Queens - In Waiting Pillow Queens are outwardly frustrated but comfortable in themselves, and their sound succeeds in finding the often-untapped ground between the two.
DIY Magazine • 19th September 2020 Review: Into it. Over It. - Figure This sombre self-reflection runs throughout ‘Figures’, a record that doesn’t quite let go of the past but provides the blueprint to do so.
DIY Magazine • 20th August 2020 Review: Bully - SUGAREGG “I’m not angry anymore,” Alicia Bognanno exhales on ‘Hours and Hours’, “I’m not holding onto that.” It’s a far cry from the visceral rage of her band’s previous albums, now replaced by a more optimistic outlook and melodies to match.
DIY Magazine • 7th August 2020 Review: Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 When Australian-Zimbabwean singer and rapper Tkay Maidza penned the first volume of her ‘Last Year Was Weird’ trilogy, she had no idea what 2020 was about to serve up.
DIY Magazine • 9th July 2020 Review: The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers Although far from a discovery of confidence, it rounds out ‘Jump Rope Gazers’ as a cathartic acceptance of doubt. With it, The Beths find their most focused sound yet in the midst of uncertainty.
