Lucid Hoops - 'I Feel Used'
Lucid Hoops hit us in the face with gritty guitars with their latest alt-rock gem ‘I Feel Used’.
Once again teaming up with producer Jack Donehue at Nauti Studios in Sydney, ‘I Feel Used’ is the follow up to the grunge vibes of ‘Kinder Company’ released earlier this year. Taking a rather traditional pop-punk and turning it completely on it’s head. Guitar fuzz to the brim, with striking vocals to match. While also providing a sing-along chorus ready for sweaty venues.
‘I Feel Used’ is about chasing and craving approval from people who might view you as expendable in their roster of relationships. The song also stems from the universal fear of being chewed up and spat out and the imbalance of power in a relationship. This feeling of powerlessness grows and all you want is attention and recognition, but these needs aren’t being met which can lead to paranoia. ‘I Feel Used’ explores coming to terms with being manipulated or being stuck in a vicious cycle while owning the situation with honesty.
This week’s Artist of the Week is girli - who has just released her third studio album ‘it’s just my opinion’.
Love Rarely bring an intense emo math rock set to Highbury/Islington’s Grace that shows they’re ready for bigger things; with excellent support from the likes of Sunday Best – we’ve just witnessed the first London headline of the next great hardcore band
After years of playing shows, reminiscing over their old bangers and becoming more musically complete than ever, Basement are back after 8 years with their new album ‘WIRED’, showing them off at their most profound and well-versed to date while still maintaining that brutal tenacity they have become renowned for.
Hailing from the infamous city in the north-east of England, the trio have brought their “unequivocally Geordie” anthems straight to the forefront of a London dominated scene.
It’s hard to believe that she’s already been making music for over ten years now, but this is not girli’s first rodeo.
Three years on from their last project, Ohio’s own alternative underdogs take another medley of influences and weld it into a transient and catchy electro-punk masterpiece to usher in their all-new album ‘Halcyon Blues’.
Dundalk shoegazers Just Mustard are as mesmerising as ever, playing a sold-out show at London’s Electric Brixton on Wednesday night.
On ‘Concrete Line’, Cutscene come with the kind of moody, poetic rock that has flourished in the UK and Ireland in recent years.
On the streets of Brighton, a voice once stopped people in their tracks. This September, it’s set to stop a city.
2026’s Brick Lane Jazz Festival, we found joyously rich cultural expression living and breathing in a defiant act of community, a conversation that’s still being written.
Ahead of her new album, Loveland, Suki Waterhouse returns with her latest single ‘Tiny Raisin’.