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    Interview: Jim Glennie from James
    Alex Duke
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Interview: Jim Glennie from James

    All The Colours Of You, the sweet sixteenth studio album from Manchester Legends James is out on June 4th with the award-winning Jacknife...
    Album Review: Wolf Alice – ‘Blue Weekend’
    Elliot Fox
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Album Review: Wolf Alice – ‘Blue Weekend’

    Wolf Alice could have ended up just like any other great-white-hope of the English press after the release of My Love is Cool in 2015: a...
    Album Review: St. Vincent – ‘Daddy’s Home’
    Amber Frost
    • May 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Album Review: St. Vincent – ‘Daddy’s Home’

    Taking us on a tour through the lives of a varied cast of downtrodden characters, St. Vincent’s newest full-length is a beautifully...
    Album Review: Squid – ‘Bright Green Field’
    Owen White
    • May 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Album Review: Squid – ‘Bright Green Field’

    Wild experimentation meets world-building excellence on the WARP-spun debut from Squid. Leaving behind quirky talk of houseplants,...
    Interview: Squid
    Louis Griffin
    • May 6, 2021
    • 7 min

    Interview: Squid

    Displacing their inspiration from people to place for the first time, Squid conjure up a dark and immersive sonic world on debut...
    Album Review: Royal Blood – ‘Typhoons’
    Alex Ollier
    • Apr 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Album Review: Royal Blood – ‘Typhoons’

    Back from the brink of addiction and the sophomore slump, Royal Blood channel alt-rock and dandy disco-funk on long-awaited third album...
    Album Review: Dry Cleaning – ‘New Long Leg’
    Freya Martin
    • Apr 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Album Review: Dry Cleaning – ‘New Long Leg’

    Sometimes funny, sometimes disgusting, but always unabashed, Dry Cleaning’s music articulates observations of modern life with exacting...
    Album Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!’
    Matt Taylor
    • Apr 8, 2021
    • 5 min

    Album Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!’

    The Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which has earned a fair amount of acclaim despite operating in near-total...
    Local Hotshots Blondes on Viral Mania and Maintaining Momentum
    Gemma Cockrell
    • Mar 20, 2021
    • 6 min

    Local Hotshots Blondes on Viral Mania and Maintaining Momentum

    Since blowing up on TikTok and their single featuring in videos by US Vice President Kamala Harris and Lizzo, Nottingham lads Blondes...
    Album Review: Arab Strap – ‘As Days Get Dark’
    Matt Taylor
    • Mar 8, 2021
    • 5 min

    Album Review: Arab Strap – ‘As Days Get Dark’

    The divine push and pull between vocalist Aidan Moffat and instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton continue as they return from a fifteen-year...
    Album Review: slowthai – ‘TYRON’
    Robbie Simms
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 6 min

    Album Review: slowthai – ‘TYRON’

    Slowthai takes a look in a cracked mirror on sophomore album, TYRON. Moving from a jagged-edged electro backed first-half with the CAPS...
    Album Review: Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’
    Freya Martin
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 4 min

    Album Review: Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’

    Percussive, sharp-edged, and soaked in complexity, On All Fours is everything we could’ve hoped for from Goat Girl’s long-sought...
    THE MIC AWARDS 2020: ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
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    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    THE MIC AWARDS 2020: ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

    One of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
    THE MIC AWARDS 2020: SONGS OF THE YEAR
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    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    THE MIC AWARDS 2020: SONGS OF THE YEAR

    One of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
    EP Review: Foster The People – ‘In The Darkest Nights, Let The Birds Sing’
    Alex Duke
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    EP Review: Foster The People – ‘In The Darkest Nights, Let The Birds Sing’

    Los Angeles-based indie pop icons Foster The People are back with an easy-listening six-song EP. The only problem? It’s abysmal. The...
    The Mic Recommends...
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    • Nov 22, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Mic Recommends...

    As we stagger past lockdown’s halfway point, The Mic’s writers have rounded up an eclectic selection of the weeks hottest new tracks to...
    Album Review: Gorillaz – ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’
    Owen White
    • Nov 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Album Review: Gorillaz – ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’

    Strange sounds for stranger times; the seventh studio album from Gorillaz is a vivid, eccentric revitalisation of pop music. Bringing...
    Interview: Pigeonhole
    Tristan Phipps
    • Nov 3, 2020
    • 5 min

    Interview: Pigeonhole

    Late October, atop the backdrop of a dilapidated Britain, North London mob Pigeonhole brought their narcotic cocktail of maundering...
    FOCUS: Liam Bailey
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    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    FOCUS: Liam Bailey

    The Mic’s Joe Hughes talked with Nottingham soul hero Liam Bailey on his blending of reggae, R&B and soul on new album, ‘Ekundayo’.
    Classics Revisited: Prefab Sprout - ‘Steve McQueen’
    Owen White
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 4 min

    Classics Revisited: Prefab Sprout - ‘Steve McQueen’

    For our Classics Revisited feature, Owen White unpicks the wordless refrains and miserable truisms of Prefab Sprout's ‘Steve McQueen’.
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