Charlie Lake dissects the first single from The Game’s forthcoming album ‘Drillmatic’, featuring Kanye West.
Lil Nas X is hip hop’s new queer icon
Kelsey Raynor dives into Lil Nas X’s newest single ‘Montero (Call Me by Your Name)’, one of the most proudly queer statements ever made in hip hop
Burial’s track ‘Chemz’ is twelve minutes of blissful garage
Alexandra Stewart explores Burial’s chaotic garage-inflected single ‘Chemz’
The Gryphon’s top tracks of 2020
With the year coming to a close, our writers came together to share some of their favourite tracks of the year.
Single Review: Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey and The Weekend
Starboy and Stargirl have released another amazing track. Lana Del Rey has featured in two of The Weeknd’s songs, ‘Prisoner’ and ‘Stargirl’, and now he has returned the favour in Lana’s new song ‘Lust for […]
Track Review: Cast by Jaws
Gone are the days where Brummie lads Jaws were releasing songs about donuts and epitomising what NME described as the sound of a ‘sunbathing cat’. ‘Cast’ is a song that bathes in its own maturity: […]
Track Review: Hard Times by Paramore
Comeback singles are a notoriously difficult thing to get right, but, when you’re Paramore, the margin for error becomes almost impossible to navigate. In the four year gap since their polarising self-titled album, the group’s […]
Track Review: Sign of the Times by Harry Styles
There’s been a lot of hype about this former boy-band member starting his solo career. So few have actually succeeded in a solo career after finding fame in this way (the exception perhaps being Robbie […]
Wake Up by Circa Waves
Circa Waves’ new song is an evolution for the band. Ditching the cute boy soft rock for heavier, leather clad riffs, ‘Wake Up’ shows a ferocity never shown by Circa Waves before. Aggressive guitar resonates […]