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.
DIY Magazine • 8th September 2021 Review: Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed Even if the message might be built on cliche, in Kacey Musgraves’ delivery there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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 • 12th August 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 • 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.
