Maisie Marra (or Eve Turnbull to her mam) grew up in Newcastle but is now based in Dublin, and her latest mini-album is a thing of rare beauty. ‘1991’ features only five tracks but each is a work of art. Whole worlds are created in these songs, which comb…

Films about putting bands together tend to be rambunctious affairs as they chronicle disparate misfits joining forces to make a joyous, cathartic racket. This Japanese animation is a more reflective, melancholy, but ultimately life-affirming, affair. Tots…

Wife and husband duo Anna Miles and Matt Brennan are the movers and groovers behind Beautiful Cosmos, and their debut album is a thing of indie-pop joy. It’s been produced by Field Music, and Beautiful Cosmos’s stuff certainly shares the same kind of subt…