People talk a lot of establishing an identity and being in transition as part of that, but for the members of deary, the shift between their former selves and what they present on their debut album is a very clear one. “Our last EP (2024’s Aurelia) was us trying to be deary.” says guitarist Ben Easton “And this album is us being deary.”

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We need to deal with a couple of things right off the bat here. Yes, this album is themed around slime, or the idea that life is malleable and impossible to shape like slime. And yes, Life Slime has sleeve art so bad it feels like something you’d see on an Instagram album cover parody acccount.

Brevity means you’ll need to google why Johnny Lynch –...

Amongst the social debris of the twenties it’s not untypical for someone to disappear for a time and come back having reinvented themselves; in the early eighties however the term was most frequently used for this self care was, applied with some derision, “Dropping out”.

Green Gartside had relocated from Leeds, where he was part of a post punk scene that included ...

Depending on your perspective, the Emperor is either really well dressed, or totally nude. That’s the thing about subjectivity and art in general, the ear of the beholder frequently examines the margins and makes a binary decision. Of all the artists sitting in that space contemporarily, the Quebec based Angine De Poitrine – that’s Khn de Poitrine (microtonal guitars, vocals)...

This month’s list features new tracks from Kneecap, Arlo Parks, Disclosure, Weezer, Don Broco, Earl Sweatshirt, Thundercat, Jack White and the wonderful Getdown Services. And more.

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