Just two top-tier albums into her career, 28-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter SIGRID has already established herself as an impeachable pop powerhouse. Sold-out tours worldwide, top 10 singles, number 1 albums, it’s all there.
On last month’s light-footed second album How To Let Go – variously hailed as “life-affirming” (NME), “stunning” (Line of Best Fit) and “an impressive pop statement” (Clash) – SIGRID built on the promise of 2019’s debut Sucker Punch – home to the enormous banger and festival favourite Strangers – flitting between disco-tinged lead single, Mirror, and the alt-rock emo of Bring Me The Horizon collaboration, Bad Life. Like her debut it crashed into the Norwegian charts at number 1 (“I’ll be at the grocery store and I’m buying toilet paper and people will ask for a selfie,” she told The Independent about her homegrown fame), while in the UK it improved on Sucker Punch’s number 4 debut by nestling in at number 2. “I actually can’t believe it,” she said at the time.
Its success means that since exploding straight out of the blocks in 2017 with instant classic and feminist anthem Don’t Kill My Vibe, SIGRID’s global career streams to date number a head-spinning 1.47 billion. BILLION. Over 365m of those are from the UK alone. You want YouTube views? She’s had over 233m of them. As previously stated – pop powerhouse.
The New Jersey quintet LORNA SHORE is back after turbulent covid years and personnel changes, and it’s darker than ever. Musically, the band leans mainly towards deathcore, blackend death metal or symphonic metal. In their earlier work, they experimented a lot in other styles, looking for the genre that the band would fit into the most.
Known for their nervy, melodic indie rock, Britain’s CIRCA WAVES first gained buzz in the 2010s with hooky singles like “Get Away” and “Stuck in My Teeth.” CIRCA WAVES was formed in Liverpool in May 2013 by guitarist and singer Shudall, who had decided to “knuckle down” and commit fully to music after spending years in a succession of no-hope garage bands.
Their melodic, propulsive rock sound, heavily inspired by The Strokes and often compared to The Vaccines, was well-received by audiences, and such a buzz built around them that they were soon offered a deal with Transgressive Records, erstwhile home of Foals, The Subways, and Mystery Jets.
Liverpool’s indie powerhouses CIRCA WAVES are back with their spectacular new album Death & Love Pt.1. Both terrifying and liberating to write, Death & Love Pt.1 is an urgent, 9-track hit of cathartic guitar-pop, serving as a powerful coping mechanism to help process frontman Kieran Shudall’s near-death experience.
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