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The crucial tastemaker imprint display fantastic curatorial skills, amassing a catalogue which is both eclectic and oddly unified. New signings Nine Perfect Lives feel just right for the label – formed by Helena Straight…
The actor, who plays Ryan Connor on the long-running Manchester-based soap, has landed a role in a new drama called Waif. Going from the Coronation Street cobbles to the East End, the comedy-drama is set in "London’s…
It kicks off with ‘Crying With You’ which initially tinkers experimentally with sound before the fierce drum beats of Lochie Dowd and vocals of Noah Learmonth jump in and effortlessly pull the whole together. And what a…
It’s an age of looking backwards while trying to figure out who you’re supposed to become, caught between who you are and the version of yourself everyone else seems to prefer. ‘Plain Jane’ is the result of six years…
In the opening scene of this 10-episode crime thriller, we see him persuading a fellow patient to take his own life – no mean feat given that the two men can only communicate through the pipes linking the basins in their…
For Prime Video's AI-generated TV series Castle Walls, produced by Turkish production studio Ay Yapım using a melange of generative video tools, has arrived, billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series to premiere…
The announcement arrives alongside the title track, the second preview of the collection of songs following previous single "Dusty", and "Wayside" featuring TYSON. "'Gauzy' represents stepping into the unknown and…
The track arrives alongside a music video directed by Vincent Moon, which features Sheherazaad and her ensemble performing the live version at Erased Tapes’ London studio. “‘Registaan’ is based in a crass desertland…
On Sinister Grift , Lennox and his co-producer, Animal Collective bandmate Josh "Deakin" Dibb, built the sound of the album around traditional elements of a rock-and-roll ensemble. To replicate the instrumental layers…
After having children, she decided to seek something "more flexible" than her daily commute from Colchester to Canary Wharf, and pivoted to voiceover work in 2019. The 42-year-old voices eight characters for the…