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Murray Stassen

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Danielle Chelosky

I'm Danielle, and I'm a New York based writer who covers music and culture. I've written for MTV News, The FADER, Grammy.com, Consequence of Sounds, and elsewhere.

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Jamie Wilde

Jamie Wilde is a Scottish music and arts journalist based in London. His bylines include Clash Magazine, NME, The Line of Best Fit, Wonderland, Notion and The Skinny Magazine.

Maia Gibbs

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Latest Articles

Quinton Barnes: Black Noise

In November 2022, the Montreal-based rapper-singer-songwriter Quinton Barnes tweeted “I want to work with noise/improv musicians in some capacity”. Barnes was looking to explore the Frenchman’s thesis that, by providing a channel for noise, music can challenge the normative order and change the course of social development.

By Lingua Road
15th July 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Entries Articles Southern rapper sosocamo blends the ethereal and the brash in “Chronic” | Tracks

Across the songs of his debut album sosocamo, he pays homage to the joys of the Southern lifestyle, and frames those hooks with irresistibly melodic flows.

By Camryn Teder
30th June 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Blondshell's Sabrina Teitelbaum favourite songs

For many artists, their art is a recollection of life. While the source makes the work meaningful, where do you draw the line?

By Camryn Teder
2nd May 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Bedridden’s "Philadelphia Got Me Through" feels like stepping into a mosh pit of angry gymnasts | Tracks

Yes, it’s that intense.

By Camryn Teder
26th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Falling Upwards With Sam Akpro | Interview

Transcending his South East London roots as well as the played-out ‘genreless’ tag, Sam Akpro knows exactly who he is and what he’s doing, as Jamie Wilde reports from Peckham.

By Jamie Wilde
20th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Meljoann comments on our modern dystopia in infectious experimental pop track “Data Ghost” | Tracks

Are the stories of some futuristic dystopian films still a thing of fiction, or have they become a reflection of the current age?

By Camryn Teder
7th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Isabella Storm steps into her power with addictive dance-pop track “Satan’s Valentine” | Tracks

Past lovers might not get away with our hearts, but they do take something almost equally as precious: our time. That’s the real heartbreak.

By Camryn Teder
5th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Roomer’s latest track “Chance” is a shoegaze slow dance in an impossible storm | Tracks

Chasing after love could take you a lifetime. To save yourself the hours, and the heartbreak, burgeoning dream-pop group Roomer suggest you leave things to chance instead in their aptly-named new single.

By Camryn Teder
27th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Luvcat puts on her rose-coloured glasses in hazy new pop track “Love & Money” | Tracks

When blinded by the euphoria of love or lust, it feels like the perfect time to live life with reckless abandon. Depending on your perspective, it’s an easy trap to fall into, or an opportunity to chase to its fullest.

By Camryn Teder
14th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Folk darling Natalie Wildgoose’s “Angel” is as tender as a declaration of love | Tracks

In a world like this one, we still have the choice to be still, contemplative, and kind, but it takes bravery to be that vulnerable. Artists like Natalie Wildgoose can help us get there.

By Camryn Teder
7th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Alt-rock group she’s green shares dreamy new shoegaze track “graze” | Tracks

Inspired by the vast Midwestern terrain that informs their lives, the underground shoegaze group she’s green steeps textured alt-rock sounds in dream-pop tenderness.

By Camryn Teder
6th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

James Brandon Lewis's favourite songs | Nine Songs interview

What musicians believe about life inevitably seeps into their sound. In turn, one of the most valuable gifts music offers us is perspective.

By Camryn Teder
24th January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

mynameisntjmack can’t escape the irony in his latest alt-rap track “argue typing” | Tracks

Maybe we all secretly love the delicious torture of what rising alternative rapper mynameisntjmack calls “argue typing”.

By Camryn Teder
22nd January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Indie-rocker Camille Schmidt asks the impossible in her revealing new track “Cult in Denver” | Tracks

Every time we fall in love, it feels like the last. All-encompassing in its hazy euphoria, this one feeling has more power over us than anything, and its startling effects force us to ask impossible questions.

By Camryn Teder
10th January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Cryogeyser shows a resilient tenderness in vulnerable slowcore track “Stargirl” | Tracks

Even in the darkness, we transform. Purveyors of shoegaze and grunge genres like Cryogeyser know this truth well, spilling out those knowing hearts accordingly in wildly cathartic alt-rock ballads.

By Camryn Teder
8th January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Emily Burns confronts matters of the heart on Die Happy

Yet, it wouldn’t have been released without the insistence of her producer Cameron McVey and girlfriend Grace. Invoking the likes of Lauren Aquilina and Wrabel, the 12-track anthology divides its time pretty evenly between piano and guitar to tell stories about finding, cherishing, and grieving love. The opening title track …

By Caitlin Chatterton
6th November 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Filmore! explores the unpredictability of life in textured D&B track “It Never Ends" | Tracks

The work of the heart is often something of a tightrope walk between fulfillment and despair. While navigating these realities is often difficult, it also, ironically, makes for great fodder for more art too.

By Camryn Teder
14th October 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

sweet93 questions reality in dreamy new shoegaze track "what's true?" | Tracks

For most experimental fans, the lure of shoegaze, dense noise pop, or fuzzy alt-rock lies in the innate mystery of these songs.

By Camryn Teder
3rd October 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Kaeto: "Any artist should be able to try on different hats and create different things" | Interview

From forward-thinking soundscapes to captivating visuals, and even crafting her own sustainable merch with t-shirts from her local charity shop, as Kaeto prepares to release her debut mixtape INTRO, the boundaries to her creative potential are limitless...

By Jamie Wilde
20th September 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

The Lemon Twigs' reference points on their new album | Interview

On their sixth album A Dream Is All We Know, The Lemon Twigs pay tribute to the lush, layered sounds of bygone eras.

By Camryn Teder
2nd May 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

girl in red: I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! Review - refreshing return | Indie

But the project, mainly its lead single collaboration with producer Finneas on “Serotonin”, shot her into a stardom she hadn’t experienced before. After that, depression and endless touring took its toll on the artist, and she had to postpone several shows due to voice issues. In interviews done during this …

By Emma Thimgren
11th April 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

The best songs by Ride and Mark Gardener | Interview

Ahead of the release of Ride’s seventh album Interplay, Mark Gardener talks Jamie Wilde through five pivotal songs of his career, taking in solo work, collaborations, and his reunited band.

By Jamie Wilde
31st March 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Turning inwards with Sam Evian

A prolific producer nestled in the woody tranquillity of his home and studio in upstate New York, Sam Evian has worked with the likes of Big Thief, Palehound, Blonde Redhead and Cass McCombs, and is also a brilliant artist in his own right.

By Jamie Wilde
21st March 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Cherym strike moments of gold on debut Take It Or Leave It

The Derry band epitomise the new age, bringing the political as well as the personal and echoing something of Meet Me @ The Altar across the pond. Their earworm 2019 single "Abigail" arrived steeped in vintage pop-punk influences, and was backed up two years later by the Hey Tori EP. …

By Caitlin Chatterton
15th February 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Zara Larsson: Venus Review - guarded transition | Pop

Thus far we know Larsson as a classic pop diva – saccharine pop so catchy it has quite a short-lived expiration date.

By Emma Thimgren
6th February 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Kali Uchis: Orquídeas Review - harmonious inherent rhythm | Pop

Kali Uchis dives further into the divine on the genre-bending Orquídeas.

By Emma Thimgren
18th January 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

The Goa Express: The Goa Express Review - refreshing and melodic | Indie

With their self titled debut album coming over four years after the band’s first release, its proceeding releases have flirted with various genres including indie pop, psych pop and indie rock. so the announcement of an album was greeted with anticipation and wonder. What’s delivered is a youthful and expressive …

By Adam Wright
5th January 2024 • The Line of Best Fit

Baby Queen emerges from the trenches of her early twenties on Quarter Life Crisis

The South African-born singer – real name Bella Latham – has curated a signature sound that sees breezy indie pop writhing in satirical nihilism; on her long-awaited full-length, it’s clear nothing has changed. It’s a reputation somewhat at odds with Heartstopper, a determinedly rose-tinted and (if you’re over the age …

By Caitlin Chatterton
9th November 2023 • The Line of Best Fit

CMAT: Crazymad, For Me Review - ambition meets concept | Country

She’s an artist who has hit a creative purple patch on album number two; imagining, and delivering, a story worthy of its creator’s prowess. While addressing themes not unheard of on a pop record, Crazymad, For Me is still a unique piece of work; creating a psychedelic soundscape with a …

By Adam Wright
18th October 2023 • The Line of Best Fit

Holly Humberstone: graduates from teenage bedroom pop to a broader pop tonality

From the very first single "Deep End" (which currently sits at a comfortable number of 32 million plays on Spotify) she immediately joined the likes of Billie Eilish as one of the faces for the new generation of alternative pop.

By Emma Thimgren
9th October 2023 • The Line of Best Fit