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• Olivia Dean shares Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy soundtrack cut 'It ... | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
The track - entitled ‘It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be’ - is a slinkily romantic yet refreshingly realistic love ballad, and was specially penned by Olivia to act as the credit song for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (the latest installment of the beloved film franchise, and the next chapter for Renée Zellweger’s iconic character).

• The Murder Capital - Blindness review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 19, 2025, midnight
On third album ‘Blindness’, The Murder Capital grapple with flawed patriotism and innate human error, all while frontman James McGovern is determined to confront – and even embrace – his own blind spots.

• Interview The Murder Capital : Blind Faith - diymag.com | DIY | Feb. 17, 2025, midnight
On third album ‘Blindness’, The Murder Capital grapple with flawed patriotism and innate human error, all while frontman James McGovern is determined to confront – and even embrace – his own blind spots.

• Paris Texas return with new EP ‘They Left Me With The Sword’ | DIY | Feb. 24, 2025, midnight
LA hip-hop duo Paris Texas have returned with a brand new EP, ‘They Left Me With The Sword’, which doubles as “a spiritual sequel” to the group’s previous ‘Red Hand Akimbo’ EP.. The latest release from the duo - made up of Louie Pastel and Felix - marks their first work since their 2023 debut album ‘MID AIR’, with it landing in the midst of the huge Chromokopia world tour ...

• Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
Album Review Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right 3-5 Stars A collection of dance-inflected singer-songwriter fare with an elusive tension at its core.

• John Glacier - Like A Ribbon review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
‘Like A Ribbon’ is an astonishingly confident debut from John Glacier, the Londoner’s sound showing itself as all-encompassing. The record feels otherworldly at times, the rotating arcade synths of ‘Emotions’ creating a buoyant atmosphere devoid of gravity; the lo-fi guitar and scratchy vocals of ‘Satellites’ emitting an intimacy ...

• Nao - Jupiter review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 19, 2025, midnight
Nao: Celestial Bodies. After a period of serious health challenges, Nao is set to return with ‘Jupiter’, her joyously confident fourth record that sees her throw off the shackles and embrace the little things. 19th February 2025. Listen. Nao shares new ‘ Jupiter’ cut, ‘ Light Years’ Her fourth album is released later this month.

• Nao on fighting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and finding happiness on new ... | DIY | Feb. 19, 2025, midnight
When listening to her fourth studio album, Nao wants you to look up at the moon – or, more accurately, the searingly bright star-like object in its periphery. In astrology, Jupiter represents expansion and growth and by naming her new record after the solar system’s largest planet, she’s hoping to give listeners a sense of the joyous, freshly self-confident music contained within.

• Nao shares new ‘Jupiter’ cut, ‘Light Years’ • News • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 7, 2025, midnight
Nao has released another track from this month’s fourth album, ‘Jupiter’. The album is set for release on 21st February, and ‘Light Years’ follows the previously-shared ‘Happy People’, ‘All Of Me’, ‘Elevate’ and ‘Wildflowers’.

• Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
If to suggest that Manic Street Preachers suffered from the strength of their own caricature – angry young men with a message; a still since unrivalled ability to combine politics and pop for chart success – is an exaggeration, then at least the way that fifteenth album ‘Critical Thinking’ starts goes some way towards misdirecting the bulk of the trio’s latest.

• Manic Street Preachers : Reflections On A Splintered World | DIY | Jan. 30, 2025, midnight
That resulting album - next month’s ‘Critical Thinking’ - is proof that the finish line is still nowhere in sight. A high-velocity juggernaut of relentless energy, the band’s knack for a tender, infectious melody locks horns with their impulse to craft the occasional anthemic chorus.