ALBUM REVIEW: Arctic Monkeys – Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino

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Hull-based minimal electronic music producer Dom Sith is the master of immersion. His latest release ‘7 INC (Creeping Death Version)’ is a bold step in a new sonic direction cloaked beneath the guise of God is 7. It’s inky and insidious, casting a shadow which looms all the larger for its unmistakable grime influences. “I …

London five-piece Hexmaze are shimmering under a veil of lurching guitarwork and witchy incantations on their debut single ‘Hex Hex Hex’. They are the musical mergence of Aneta, Alex, Emma, Mel and Sophie – five women brought together from the UK, Sweden, Poland and Mexico, drawing together a mosaic of influences and creative minds. While …

Hull grunge trio Bloodhound unite forces with the nightmarish psychedelia of Brooders to bring us their latest single ‘FRSTRTD’. Expansive and menacing, ‘FRSTRTD’ immerses itself in a sludge of bone-grinding guitar riffs and tortured vocals; the result is commanding and visceral. The collaborators climb from a deep-set ennui, drumming up momentum, before unleashing a hellfire …

Hull’s four-piece Let Man Loose return with their second EP release, aptly titled ‘Vol.2’. With lashings of sleaze and glamour, the four tracks have reverberations of Arctic Monkey’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ if it were brought right down to earth. The instrumentals bite: look no further than ‘Queen Bee’ to see the way Let …

Dom Sith, a minimalist electronic artist belonging to the burgeoning Hull music scene, has released his fourth track, ‘Hood’, in the wake of a triptych of singles that have been at once scintillating and almost sinister. ‘Hood’ is undeniably a nocturnal piece, with coruscating synths against an insurgent bassline: a masterful balance of light and …

Discovering an artist at their emergence, untapped and unexplored, is one of the greatest pleasures of a music-lover; the only thing better is when you can divine the potential it holds, knowing that what you just heard has a determined sense of direction – a place to go. Jeans Shephard’s debut single ‘Burden’ is a …

Before I say anything at all, I think it’s best you and I agree: nothing the Arctic Monkeys could have produced would have been enough. They are simply too loved – and for that, they are damned. We can take a look in that rose-tinted lens of retrospect, through each fleeting, transitory era: from ‘Whatever …

It’s a matter of fact that every budding indie fanatic was raised on a saccharine diet of The Wombats; the angst-ridden exuberance that pulsated from their debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation was like a spoonful of sugar that became our Dark Fruits-drunk pop inauguration – a rite of passage, you might …

Glasgow’s Spinning Coin release their latest visual accompaniment to their single ‘Starry Eyes’, which, much like their sound, captures beautifully their simple, languorous style that is at once personal and honest. Fringed with the theme of nature and friendship, the video seems to evoke something nostalgic and rose-tinted, with autumnal colours and candid smiles. The …

If I were to interview Joe Russell Brown, I wouldn’t have it any other way than this: tucked away in the far corner of Café Indiependent, in second-hand armchairs after a game of Trivial Pursuit. This quiet, peaceful setting was altogether unremarkable, which looking back, was incongruous to a remarkable musician. But there is humbleness …