Alex Duke Jun 3, 20214 minInterview: Jim Glennie from JamesAll The Colours Of You, the sweet sixteenth studio album from Manchester Legends James is out on June 4th with the award-winning Jacknife...
Elliot FoxJun 3, 20214 minAlbum 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...
Amber FrostMay 20, 20213 minAlbum 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...
Owen WhiteMay 8, 20213 minAlbum Review: Squid – ‘Bright Green Field’Wild experimentation meets world-building excellence on the WARP-spun debut from Squid. Leaving behind quirky talk of houseplants,...
Louis GriffinMay 6, 20217 minInterview: SquidDisplacing their inspiration from people to place for the first time, Squid conjure up a dark and immersive sonic world on debut...
Alex OllierApr 29, 20213 minAlbum 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...
Freya MartinApr 9, 20214 minAlbum Review: Dry Cleaning – ‘New Long Leg’Sometimes funny, sometimes disgusting, but always unabashed, Dry Cleaning’s music articulates observations of modern life with exacting...
Matt TaylorApr 8, 20215 minAlbum 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...
Gemma CockrellMar 20, 20216 minLocal Hotshots Blondes on Viral Mania and Maintaining MomentumSince blowing up on TikTok and their single featuring in videos by US Vice President Kamala Harris and Lizzo, Nottingham lads Blondes...
Matt TaylorMar 8, 20215 minAlbum 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...
Robbie SimmsFeb 12, 20216 minAlbum 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...
Freya MartinJan 31, 20214 minAlbum 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...
-Jan 1, 20215 minTHE MIC AWARDS 2020: ALBUMS OF THE YEAROne of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
-Jan 1, 20214 minTHE MIC AWARDS 2020: SONGS OF THE YEAROne of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
Alex Duke Dec 17, 20202 minEP 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...
-Nov 22, 20206 minThe 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...
Owen WhiteNov 21, 20205 minAlbum 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...
Tristan PhippsNov 3, 20205 minInterview: PigeonholeLate October, atop the backdrop of a dilapidated Britain, North London mob Pigeonhole brought their narcotic cocktail of maundering...
-Oct 28, 20205 minFOCUS: Liam BaileyThe Mic’s Joe Hughes talked with Nottingham soul hero Liam Bailey on his blending of reggae, R&B and soul on new album, ‘Ekundayo’.
Owen WhiteOct 21, 20204 minClassics 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’.