Priya Elan, Author at NME

Friko – ‘Something Worth Waiting For’ review: wrestling with the life they worked so hard for

The Chicago band’s second record is a dynamic musical accomplishment laced with an inescapable feeling of heavy melancholy in the face of their breakout success

The 10 most electrifying pauses in rock

What's the most embarrassing thing that could happen at a gig? Spilling your pint on a stranger? Your gig buddy talking so loudly that...

The BRITs’ five most harrowingly awful moments

The BRITs 2018 are tonight, which got us thinking. Every year the ceremony brings up the Big Questions. Like in 2011, when we were...

Why ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ is New Order’s finest pop moment

There’s something about 'Bizarre Love Triangle' which screams "pure pop". The combination of the high ended keyboards, the precise drums and Hooky’s counter melody...

Pulp’s 10 Best Songs – As Voted By You

As anyone who saw them during any of their triumphant gigs knows, Pulp have an embarrassment of amazing, time-defying tracks. But how to choose...

Watch – Cat Power’s Moving Performance Of ‘Bully’ on ‘Jools Holland’

Last night on 'Later...with Jools Holland' Chan Marshall performed the previously unreleased track 'Bully'. It was the kind of visceral and raw performance that...

New Music – Mount Kimbie, ‘Blood And Form’

With its squishy, Motorik beat, gently tipsy puddles of synth and trippy, backwards vocals, 'Blood And Form', a new track from Mount Kimbie, is...

Watch – TLC’s Rare ‘Creep’ Video

In 1994, TLC were attempting to make a transition to the next stage of their career. Although now considered a New Jill Swing classic,...

Month In Music – The Best Things We Heard In March

March 2013 will be almost certainly be remembered for The Month When The Weather Got Ridiculous. Still, if your ears didn’t drop off from...

Five Things We Learned From The Beyoncé Documentary

The popdoc genre hit a new level of transparency last year with Katy Perry’s Piece Of Me. As the tale of a one-time Christian...