The Line of Best Fit

The first solo record in seven years from Haruomi Hosono – one of the most influential figures in Japanese music – is a stripped-back, sentimental sojourn through the sounds of Brill Building pop, bossa nova, and Beethoven but, as he tells Cal Cashin, his head is firmly in the present. …

Michael Watson took a portable recording setup into the woods of Ontario and came out with a Preloved record that honours their beloved dog and the end of their childhood.

“Symptom of Love” introduces the first taste of Cordoba's forthcoming EP, and showcases the full breadth of her bilingual songwriting. Raised on a rich blend of American and British rock alongside Colombian and Cuban music, Cordoba’s relationship with music was shaped early by the sounds constantly surrounding her. “I remember …

Through relentless touring and a growing reputation on the live circuit, Basht. have built a devoted fanbase in the lead-up to announcing Poor Advice. Knockout live shows on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, as well as appearances at festivals including The Great Escape and Truck. …

In the title track off her new record, Emma Cook puts the feeling in her pocket so that she can remain grounded.

Shaped more by the internet than any one city, samxemma’s Sam Cooper and Emma Kirsch describe their sound as distinctly online. “We don’t sound like we’re from Manchester,” Cooper admits. “All the music I find is online.” Yet their meeting was offline; at university. “Freshers week at Spoons,” Kirsch recalls …

“Picture Of Health” tells the story of a fictional character who lives vicariously via online fitness and financial gurus, drifting through each day in pursuit of the next short-lived rush. “I’ve parted seas and I’ve smoked cigarettes, I’ve travelled a thousand miles just to make love in your bed. I’m …

Ahead of UK headline shows and propelled by their new album, Home Front discusses the wilful cruelty involved in punching down on the less fortunate members of your community, and how punk can save us.

Madra Salach are creating ancestral melodies with blistering modernity and have forged a raw new folklore from Dublin's restless spirit.

“Music has always been there for me,” says the British-American songwriter – real name Jenny Hirons. After learning piano for ten years as a child, she has turned a private habit into something intensely public. “I would play piano whenever I had access to one. I credit LA for bringing …

They take their name from a renowned French psychoanalyst, compelled by her dual-status as a “serious academic and unhinged romantic figure,” she’s a person they desperately wanted associated with themselves.

It happened in sparing drops, gently letting Bingham know it was there. There wasn’t anything particularly spectacular and grand about the storm’s beginnings.

By the time I find Julia Wolf in the green room at Camden's KOKO, the chaos of load-in and an early fan queue is already underway. She's calm, grounded and a quiet contrast to the storm brewing outside, just ahead of her support slot with PVRIS. The next evening, she’d …

In the quiet before release day, Cari Fletcher sits with the rawest album of her career, and the question that’s followed her through it: Would you still love me if you really knew me? The earthy smell of burning incense curls through the air in a dimly lit room, tucked …

In November 2022, the Montreal-based rapper-singer-songwriter Quinton Barnes tweeted “I want to work with noise/improv musicians in some capacity”. Barnes was looking to explore the Frenchman’s thesis that, by providing a channel for noise, music can challenge the normative order and change the course of social development.

In the USA in the early 2000s, a dancer spent their childhood enveloped in music. In Spain in the early 2000s, one producer and one videographer watched family members build guitars, and a mother was a part of an underground punk scene that sprouted after a toppled dictatorship circa 1975. …

Across the songs of his debut album sosocamo, he pays homage to the joys of the Southern lifestyle, and frames those hooks with irresistibly melodic flows.

With their glorious, Jackson Pollock-esque record hot off the presses, the members of Crewe quartet UNIVERSITY sit down with Isabella Ambrosio to discuss what happens when a scrappy little band nobody cares about becomes one that shows up the rest of its class again and again.

For years, SXSW has remained a springboard for breakout acts – among them one of Ava’s key inspirations, Amy Winehouse, who began gaining traction in the US after her 2007 debut in Austin, Texas. There is a quiet significance, then, to Joe performing at the festival’s inaugural London event; soul-rooted, …

For many artists, their art is a recollection of life. While the source makes the work meaningful, where do you draw the line?

Yes, it’s that intense.

Transcending his South East London roots as well as the played-out ‘genreless’ tag, Sam Akpro knows exactly who he is and what he’s doing, as Jamie Wilde reports from Peckham.

Are the stories of some futuristic dystopian films still a thing of fiction, or have they become a reflection of the current age?

Past lovers might not get away with our hearts, but they do take something almost equally as precious: our time. That’s the real heartbreak.

Chasing after love could take you a lifetime. To save yourself the hours, and the heartbreak, burgeoning dream-pop group Roomer suggest you leave things to chance instead in their aptly-named new single.

When blinded by the euphoria of love or lust, it feels like the perfect time to live life with reckless abandon. Depending on your perspective, it’s an easy trap to fall into, or an opportunity to chase to its fullest.

In a world like this one, we still have the choice to be still, contemplative, and kind, but it takes bravery to be that vulnerable. Artists like Natalie Wildgoose can help us get there.

Inspired by the vast Midwestern terrain that informs their lives, the underground shoegaze group she’s green steeps textured alt-rock sounds in dream-pop tenderness.

What musicians believe about life inevitably seeps into their sound. In turn, one of the most valuable gifts music offers us is perspective.