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Oxygen Share Debut Single ‘Without A Trace’
In a moment of sink or swim for the band, Oxygen let slip raw power with their debut single ‘Without A Trace’. Already at a crossroads with the injection of new talent within their emerging band, it’s natural for anyone to be fighting to find their place amongst the ranks. Oxygen appear to have come out of that new upheaval that all newly founded bands struggle with within their early days of evolution and shuffling, and are the better for it.
Girl In The Year Above Cause Chaos at Truck Festival
Over the weekend, a couple of us from Still Listening Magazine’s own investigative reporting team had the pleasure to be invited to Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, with the intent of listening to some music, enjoying the beautiful summer sun, and if there was absolutely nothing else to, interview an artist.
Ones To Watch: Okay Okay Capture The End-Of-Summer Haze On ‘Hang Out’ — Still Listening
Felipe Giannella Perez’s project Okay Okay returns with Hang Out, a shimmering end-of-summer single that feels lifted straight from the golden days of the 2000s. Dripping in surfer town vibrations, the song is nostalgic yet modern, blending seaside garage rock and dreamlike beach, letting warmth rush over its listeners with classic clean indie vocals.
Start Listening To: Matt-Felix — Still Listening
With a barebones production and devil-may-care attitude, Matt and his band do it all, and better than most. From converting the plain into the neon and wrapping it all up in a whammy finale worthy Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain, Matt-Felix is one to start listening to. After a month and a half of conflicting schedules and my fantastic capacity for procrastination, I was at last, finally, thankfully, able to sit down with Matt-Felix and have a word about himself, his band, his music and his style.
HighSchool Return To Form With ‘Dipped’ — Still Listening
HighSchool have been expansionist in their ambitions, growing from Melbourne’s lockdown-driven indie hopefuls into London‑based post‑punk heros. With two EPs and a string of gorgeous singles behind them, their music, characterised by lo‑fi textures, emotional resonance, and gothic-pop sensibilities, continues to gain traction. Their expansion into a trio and continued collaboration with top-tier producers position them strongly for their much-anticipated debut studio album, expected this month.
Artists We Can’t Wait To See At Truck Festival — Still Listening
With Truck Festival fast approaching and the swarming masses soon to gather under the warm Oxfordshire sun, many must wonder just who to see from the busy varied lineup. Still Listening, in our infinite wisdom, once again present to you our list of artists that we just can’t wait to watch.
Gig Review: Armlock At The Lexington — Still Listening
It has been said that Armlock play music for having your head in the clouds, a statement that’s hard to disagree with when you hear them play like they did the other night. Returning to the scene with an unreleased song and their biggest hits from the last two years: they’re a band that promises and delivers. Swinging back with their signature sound of 2000’s indie, almost-grungy yet light and electronic energy, these old friends put on a show that couldn’t be missed.
HAAL Are A Cure To The Jaded And The Bored, And They Stand On The Toes Of Giants. — Still Listening
Local yet otherworldly, HAAL have swung themselves back into the ‘grime-light’. They’re more than your noisy basement-rock team hounding smackheads stuck to sticky floors. HAAL have successfully done what all bands seek to do in their tenure and have curated an immaculately new sound.
Ben Stafford - Happier Today Review — Still Listening
Booming back to the scene with his new work on a summertime silver plater is Stafford’s ‘Happier Today’: a warm tribute wrapped in a smooth 80’s nostalgia sound and dedicated to the contentment with moving forward and looking onwards. Slowly making it’s way in with a rise into acoustic guitar and rapid backing piano, ‘peace sign and a crescent moon’ is a charmingly fond, June-ish melody, complimenting the childlike humming evocative of teenage jam-outs with friends in the younger years of life.
Six Of The Sexiest Artists We Can’t Wait To See At Primavera — Still Listening
Having witnessed their fantastic power live on stage late last year, Mag Bay are undeniably what modern pop music ought to become. Thrilling us with their sophomore album, Imaginal Disk, all in attendance could feel the ambition of the band in their championing of excellence in storytelling and production. Their accomplished glossy sound will be perfect for the ambience of the start of the Barcelona summer. The darling vocals and instrumental growth throughout their set will leave you fulfilled.
FORWARDS Festival 2025: Bristol’s Progressive Music Weekend Returns — Still Listening
Fantastic news for Bristol bound inner-city music lovers as FORWARDS Festival releases their first announcement for the August weekend packed with acts. Following their hot streak of the last few years, jamming artist after artist in to a two day slot of hectic summer insanity, they return with performers in tow to keep the masses happy and cheering for more.
Nice Biscuit - SOS Review — Still Listening
Since their debut LP in 2018, the band have grown steadily into a beloved industry favourite, producing perfectly synchronized harmonies that pair with their fairytale attitude and ‘world-of-their-own-making’ rhythms. Influenced by kraut-rock, garage, modern psych, and folk/country music, the Australian quintet continue on-and-on to develop their already established, celebrated sound with SOS.
Festival Review: Forwards 2024 — Still Listening
Heartwarming and community driven for the masses, Still Listening took on Forwards Fest in a gin and tonic haze, fighting off the rain and loving every second. Huge crowds of onlookers gathered to watch Yussef Dayes unleash typhoon winds with incendiary lashes of drums and was undoubtedly a standout for the whole weekend; not to say the other acts were beneath him in raw talent or crowd control.
Pixey - Million Dollar Baby Review — Still Listening
Pixey’s Man Power, marches into the album with a melodic and hypnotic expectation raising first track. Layered with subtle sweet vocals and mashed together with deep synths, complimenting the backing of distorted guitar: you can’t help but get up and walk the line, break the bar and move. Instrumentally reminiscent of early 00’s themes evoked by Blur, this first piece brings that feeling to the present in full-force.
Home Counties - Exactly As It Seems Review — Still Listening
Home Counties take on the mantle of resistance against landlords, gentrification, and dead-end spreadsheets in their new electric summertime release, and we’re all the luckier for it. A new and improved explosive post pop sound that their listeners have been longing to hear. The band is a push past Paramore in a sunshiny look upon London life. Bursting with electrodes and incendiary guitar, killer drums and a wicked hot synth: this album is for people that get out of the house.
Standout Artist to Watch: Frank Malachi — Still Listening
Entrenched in a new jazz revival reminiscent of the free flowing harmonies and harp-like sonic structure you’d long to hear from a dream or deep forest, Frank Malachi is an artist to look-out for. With effervescent vocal swings that pair with low synths, a lullaby saxophone can be heard falling to and fro, opening their tracks up to a feeling of either skimming atop vast water or falling far deeper below the surface, propelled by Malachi’s tonal symmetry.
The Libertines - All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade Review — Still Listening
The Libertines are back at the helm of their beloved Albion, returning in full swing kicking back against the worldwide mundanity yet again hand in hand with punky rock and roll. Although they've had their internationally renowned and globally televised ups and downs, this time - according to Peter and Carl at least - they’re sticking around! The classic post-britpop sound that endeared them to all returns with a mighty boom.
Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves Review — Still Listening
With nautical sounding orchestral tones and hypnotizing lyricism, Julia Holter returns to us with yet another cosmic leapfrog into a world of her own creation. More than having proven herself with her incredible and vast array of past success from modern composition to movie soundtracks, Holter charms her way back into the ears of lovers and listeners with an elegance that many have come to expect from the artist.
Ben Stafford - Thoughts and Feelings Review — Still Listening
Continually surprising his listeners, multi-instrumentalist Ben Stafford’s latest album threads the line between genre and transcends expectation. His past work already having been met with high acclaim, Stafford had a lot to live up to. When experimenting with a new sound, an artist can be subjected to countless pitfalls that may alienate the regular listener; in this case, Ben seems to have exceeded his past work with major success.
Begbug - Pack Your Bags the Sun Is Growing Review — Still Listening
In a music market littered with Alex G vocal strain and Modern Baseball copycats that beat their drum to the tune of teenage heartache, Bedbug has continually impressed their listeners with explorative lyrics. It’s hard to come across that not so long forgotten remedy of charming bedroom indie-pop that sounds like its come from the actual bedroom of somebody with something interesting to say.
Amelia Coburn - Between The Moon and The Milkman Review — Still Listening
A finalist of the BBC Folk Awards, Coburn pierces the scene with as much whimsy as expected. Dashing through her album we follow her stories beat-by-beat from escapades down the Seine, sailing through deep uncharted waters, to jaunts up the streets of Dublin with lovers in tow.
The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024
As we hit these milestones, we have also learned that a warming planet does not affect us equally. The climate crisis has always and will continue to disproportionately affect people who are already facing the consequences of racial, socioeconomic and geopolitical injustices. Below are some of the best climate books published December 2022 – December 2023, as well as the books to look out for in the new year.
EARTHSHOT by Colin Butfield Jonnie Hughes Read by Jonnie Hughes David Attenborough Christiana Figueres Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Naoko Yamazaki Adam James Penelope Rawlins | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine
This timely call to action is narrated by a cast of talented voice pros, along with four notable conservation activists who read their own reflections and views. Coauthor and British filmmaker Jonnie Hughes narrates most of this audio with pleasing clarity and dignified passion. He explains how the Earthshot Prizes, initiated in 2019, will every year for the next 10 years identify, inspire, and support five conservation innovators and fund their ideas.
The Best Conservation Books of 2021
We’re talking about the best books written about ‘global conservation’ in the past year, all shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize. Could you start by telling me a bit about what that means—is it referring to conservation of our environment? What does it cover? I think it’s deliberately wide. Yes, it’s conservation of the environment or conservation of a more particular thing.
5 Best Nature Literary Works of 2020
One does not have to be outside to experience nature. Due to the recent pandemic, many were forced to stay inside their homes for a very long period in 2020. Some were stuck with the desire to go out and enjoy the warmth of nature. But, they can't. Fortunately, many great nature literary works were produced by talented writers that will help the readers enjoy nature in the safety of their homes.
A LIFE ON OUR PLANET by David Attenborough Jonnie Hughes Read by David Attenborough | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine
David Attenborough is best known for his BBC nature documentaries, with their stunning scenes of wild animals and their habitats around the globe. What this book shows, though, is that he is equally adept at painting vivid scenes with words, a skill that makes this work eminently suitable to audio. In addition, he serves as narrator, and his easy-on-the-ears, honed-for-television voice and steady pace add to listeners' pleasure. The audiobook is part autobiography and part ecology lesson.
A LIFE ON OUR PLANET
More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom. In her third book, Doyle (Love Warrior, 2016, etc.) begins with a life-changing event. “Four years ago,” she writes, “married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman.” That woman, Abby Wambach, would become her wife.
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