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Plini: "I’m really happy with everything on this record, which I don’t think has ever happened before"

By Matt Doria

Ironically, very little of the material on Impulse Voices – the long-awaited second album from scene-leading prog-rocker Plini – came from impulse. Instead a result of long, introspective stretches of time off-tour, the album shows a whole new side of the Sydney-based instrumentalist.

Amahiru’s Saki: “It was so fun to work with Frédéric Leclercq and we both had a lot of ideas, so we decided to make Amahiru its own project”

By Matt Doria

What happens when you pair an icon of European metal with the undefeated queen of Japanese post-rock? You get Amahiru: one of the most jaw-droppingly badass bands in the world right now.

Architects’ Adam Christianson: “We wanted to start fresh and try some new things”

By Matt Doria

The metalcore gods must be feeling mighty generous this year, kicking it off with a fresh and fiery new epic from the luminous legends in Architects.

Julien Baker: “Nothing about it is really haphazard – even the stuff that sounds intentionally lo-fi, or minimalist, is actually very calculated”

By Matt Doria

The new year has only just begun, but if 2021 has up its sleeves an indie-rock album more emphatic or ethereal than Julien Baker’s latest, we’ll eat our damn hats.

You Me At Six’s Max Helyer: “The best way to describe how I write a song is that I look at it as though I’m a painter”

By Matt Doria

A molotov cocktail of rock and pop set to ignite the scene like never before, the latest effort from You Me At Six is easily their most ambitious, if not their outright best.

Tash Sultana: "I wrote an album that coincided with the realisations I was having within myself"

By Matt Doria

After being forced to pause their typically ultra-turbulent schedule, Tash Sultana decided – against all plausible odds – that they actually appreciated living at a cruiser, more easygoing pace. And now they have an album of pure sonic euphoria to show for it.

Steven Wilson: “One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is that rock music – particularly the guitar – hasn’t really managed to reinvent itself”

By Matt Doria

For most artists with over 50 albums to their name, the idea of breaking new ground might seem outlandish, if not outright impossible. For prog god Steven Wilson, though? Well, it’s a goddamn piece of cake

Luca Brasi’s Tom Busby: “We actually made a conscious effort to put heaps less pressure on ourselves”

By Matt Doria

With all the odds stacked against them, Luca Brasi powered through a notably rough album cycle and a global health crisis back-to-back, coming out the other side with their strongest and most upbeat set of tunes yet. We know what you’re thinking: how the f*** did they do it!?

Pale Waves' Heather Baron-Gracie: "This album is a journey through my emotional growth as a person across the past year"

By Matt Doria

With album #2, the goth-pop hellions in Pale Waves set their sights on world domination. As for how they’ll achieve it? Well, they’ve got two of the most inescapable drawcards in their clutch: nostalgia, and existential crises.

Yungblud: “Why, by f***ing some miracle, have I gotten this far? Because of my fanbase and my community – they know I’m telling the truth to them, and I ain’t gonna leave them behind”

By Matt Doria

Love ‘im or hate ‘im, there’s no stopping Yungblud’s punk revolution, equal parts thrashy and theatrical. He’s already taken over England – next up, the world.

Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia: “I wanted to go as Slayer as I possibly could...”

By Matt Doria

Bring Me The Horizon continue to reinvent the core foundations of heavy music with another kaleidoscopic onslaught of beats and breakdowns.

Passenger: “It’s just the sensible thing to do to be a good guy and give back a little bit”

By Matt Doria

Modern-day folk lord Passenger doesn’t quite understand the concept of a ‘break’, having just released his eighth album in eight years. On this one, he plunges right into the deepest, most emo depths of his heart.