Ben Homewood

King Krule – ‘The Ooz’ Review

Welcome back inside Archy Marshall’s mind. Four years ago, on ‘Cementality’, he sang, “Brain, leave me be / Can’t you see these eyes are...

Sheer Mag – ‘Need To Feel Your Love’ Review

Sometimes, good rock'n'roll records are all about feel, and Philadelphia five-piece Sheer Mag's debut is a case in point. The first hint comes from...

Foxygen – ‘Hang’ Review

Before releasing their last album, 2014’s sprawling 24-song exercise in sloppy rock theatre ‘…And Star Power’, Foxygen keyboardist Jonathan Rado hadn’t time for standard-...

Soft Hair – ‘Soft Hair’ Review

A couple of years ago, blond-haired New Zealander Connan Mockasin had a nightmare. He and Sam Eastgate were cooped up in a dirty bedroom...

Craig David: Born To Do It… Again – The NME Interview

Back with a sixth album after four years in the wilderness, Craig David is a new, relentlessly positive pop star. But what’s it really...

Conspiracy Theorists Think Donald Trump Might Be Andy Kaufman In Disguise

Imagine if Donald Trump wasn’t real. If he wasn’t really bidding to become the next American President. If all his hideous proclamations and morally...

From No-shows To Heroes: How DIIV’s UK Comeback Closed A Turbulent Chapter

His face obscured by the dirty yellow hoodie he'd been wearing all week, Cole Smith stood on stage at the Belgrave Music Hall in...

“Grime is a cultural export”: Meet the people taking UK rap global with their second annual awards ceremony

For anyone who’s ventured anywhere near a festival, computer, television or radio in 2016, grime has been pretty much unavoidable. Albums from Skepta and...

Crystal Castles – ‘Amnesty (I)’ Review

The war started on October 8 2014. Posting on Facebook, Alice Glass announced she was leaving Crystal Castles, dissolving the headachey electronic duo she...

Cass McCombs – ‘Mangy Love’ Album Review

Cass McCombs is walking down an alleyway and he finds a dead girl naked inside an icebox. He walks on, through black clouds of...
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