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Category: Editor’s Spotlight

Editor's Spotlight, Reviews

Discovery: Sheffield’s The Bad Actors are smashing it on and offline

15/08/202519/08/2025 Graeme Smith

In the modern age, bands make their name on Instagram and TikTok. Yet, they need to back themselves up with an impressive live presence. Sheffield’s The Bad Actors have done both.

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Discovery: Meena release polished shoegaze debut album

12/08/202516/08/2025 Graeme Smith

Mastered at Abbey Road by the esteemed Frank Arkwright, Different now is the debut album from Meena.

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Jacqueline Cordes’s new album welcomes us to the ‘Chromaverse’

12/08/202515/08/2025 Graeme Smith

Los Angeles-based composer Jacqueline Cordes hasn’t been far from my thoughts of late.

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MAAME shows variety with classy and defiant new single

08/08/202515/08/2025 Graeme Smith

A local artist who considers Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, and FKA Twigs among her influences, MAAME is back with a new single about being used to feed someone’s ego.

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A familiar name remixes her poignant anti-war track under a new alias

08/08/202512/08/2025 Graeme Smith

When I first heard of Sophia Aya, she seemed like an enigma. Yet, I soon came to realise that she is, in fact, an alias for a familiar face and name.

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Feel the drama of a situationship with the mesmerising Little Quirks

08/08/202511/08/2025 Graeme Smith

About the overthinking that comes from being in a ‘situationship,’ Everything but the Title is the newest single from Little Quirks.

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Claire Morales releases perfectly imperfect new single

06/08/202508/08/2025 Graeme Smith

Capturing a rare introspective and quiet moment in an otherwise epic and energetic journey of an album, Low is the latest single from Claire Morales.

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Ally Cribb goes acoustic to bring back some favourites

04/08/202507/08/2025 Graeme Smith

Stripping back three fan favourite songs, Ally Cribb is back with a new acoustic EP.

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Discovery: York-based debutant Ruby Wheeler captures the soul of country

01/08/202505/08/2025 Graeme Smith

Based right here in York, Ruby Wheeler is not only a debutant on our pages, but a debutant in the world of recorded music. Wyatt Wayne is her first released single.

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