Albums

The NME 100 alum and Buenos Aires club renegade dials up the madness on her latest EP At just 26, Six Sex (aka Francisca Agustina Cuello) has crowned herself the queen of perreo rave. Hailing from Villa Tesei in Buenos Aires, she’s been setting dancefloors alight with her warped, high-octane fusion of…

Maximalism meets controlled chaos on the superstar’s first pop album in half a decade – and it’s just so much fun When Lady Gaga first announced ‘Mayhem’ in January, she said it “started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved”. She hasn’t literally tried to recreate…

The Hastings band’s first record is scuzzy, snarling and a whole lot of fun Back in 2023, snotty breakout single ‘Treasure’ saw HotWax deservedly championed as the next great guitar band to come out of Britain. Plenty of big moves followed, including a couple of urgent, riff-tastic EPs and support…

The Canadian band fuses scorching heaviness with crystalline beauty to stunning effect on their sophomore effort It might surprise those not attuned to metal’s harsh wavelength, but the genre has proved enduringly progressive. While other subgenres of rock music are content to continuously reanimate…

BLACKPINK's scene-stealer delivers excess, but not much substance on her debut album – it paints the perfect image of a superstar, but not the woman behind it Lisa has always been a force – sharp, sinuous and utterly magnetic on stage. But on her debut solo album ‘Alter Ego’, the BLACKPINK…

The London singer’s long-awaited debut elevates her heartfelt lyricism with her intoxicating voice Hope Tala knows what it means to trust the process. The British-Jamaican artist’s soft-spoken neo-soul poetry has been drifting across airwaves and racking up streams since 2018. In that time, she’s…

A deep love for dance music and invigorating writing infuses the band’s third record with an incredible vitality This is not the album you’d expect from Bdrmm, makers of the “modern-day shoegaze classic”. The Hull quartet have stepped away from the pedalboard and onto the dancefloor for their third…

Szmierek carves his own unique lane of resonant, rave-tinged poetry set in one fictional service station Service stations are, in many ways, the epicentres of the universe. Designed for folk to catch a breather from the breakneck of the motorway, these identical buildings are often gloomy and…