Wax Music

Sep 17, 2024 | waxmusicuk.com | Fran Pope

Forwards Festival returned to Bristol’s Durdham Down for the weekend of August 31 to September 1. Its pink and yellow posters had been brightening the city’s billboards for months, big names promising, splashed in white: Loyle Carner, Romy, LCD Soundsystem, Four Tet, Jessie Ware. For many audience members and artists, it would be the final festival of the season as the weather started to think about turning; a last release before the autumn would send us back inside to our sticky, beloved venues.

Jan 25, 2024 | waxmusicuk.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Green Hands’ outlook comes from the place of experience rather than innocence; from a life that has been well and truly lived. Inspired by memories about an all-too-brief year spent living in Bristol, ‘Been Around’, in its non-specific way, rings with notions of lessons learnt along the road of life, and the wisdom that lies before us now.

Jan 12, 2024 | waxmusicuk.com | Fran Pope

French five-piece Unschooling returned late in 2023 with a tightly focused whirlwind of an album, New World Artifacts. It comes after their 2021 EP Random Acts of Total Control album saw them tour extensively – ramping up well-deserved attention across festivals, gig circuits, and the internet alike – much like their debut tape Defensive Designs in 2019.

Sep 25, 2023 | waxmusicuk.com | Rachel Mercer

Last weekend we attended Waterworks, what is quickly claiming the title of London’s grand send off to the summer. Now in its third year at Gunnersbury park, this edition was armed with cloudless 27 degree heat and their most exciting lineup to date. Representation in dance music has been a hot topic of conversation, especially with more electronic sounds sneaking their way into the mainstream and the charts in recent years.

Aug 16, 2023 | waxmusicuk.com | Bryson Edward Howe

Behind the faces of the weary lies a desperation, one with the will to skewer and puncture the swelling balloon of rot, their countenances etched with the scars of battles fought under the unforgiving glare of flickering fluorescent lights and bathed in the cold digital glow of computer screens’ azure hue.