Elvis Thirlwell

3 days ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Two years on from breakout 2023 album ‘Everyone’s Crushed’, NYC duo Water From Your Eyes are back, sharing details of a new album – ‘It’s a Beautiful Place’ (out 22nd August via Matador) – alongside beguiling new single ‘Life Signs’.

4 days ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

There’s not many bands that embody the mystique of ultra-hip urban cool right now quite like RIP Magic. Fronted by Marco Pini (Sorry), a secretive last 12 months has been all super exclusive East London parties, sneaking onto the lower echelons of tastemaking festival bills, waiting for the iron to get hot, waiting for the right time to strike…And good news is that their debut release – a double whammy no less – positively tingles with promise.

2 weeks ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Meeting at art college in Brighton before gravitating towards the South East London suburbia, 8-piece PARADE are a band that bring together talents in music art, fashion, design (and more besides), and who revel in this mutli-disciplinary, multi-genre DIY experiment. Opening themselves up to the world with a double single release on their self-founded imprint Appointment 1, our first introduction to PARADE offers up as many tantalizing questions as it provides delicious answers.

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

They say that music is more about what you don’t play than what you do. As if mainlining this mantra straight into their bones, Most Things’ newest cut provides yet another exquisite exercise in how much nuance they can achieve and feel with just a bass, drum-kit and mic. The sound of a band working maximalism into minimalism, ‘Lucky’ sows a whole field with a handful of seeds; takes a stepladder and reaches for the stars.

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

London’s Blousey share new single ‘Chances’ and announce debut EPSix-piece Blousey are all about donning black blazers, puffing out chests, pushing back hair, and belting out a big fat chorus. Within a live show that elsewhere sets its stall on pounding gloomy gothic rumbles a la 80s Nick Cave, new single ‘Chances’ serves up a glinting and melodic moment.