Contributor Owen Trimming reviews the highly-anticipated Slaves, who put on a meteoric performance at Manchester Academy
The punk two-piece deliver a sophomore album which, though impassioned, lacks imagination and fails to impress
It felt like the overriding theme of the night was some sort of bizarre dream
Slaves return with an impressive third album, binning the meaningless skits of the previous LP whilst demonstrating the lyrical and vocal power of frontman Isaac Holman
Now a free music publication dished out on the streets, Dominic Bennett looks back at NME’s history of landfill indie to Justin Bieber and feels no mourning
Elizabeth Rushton talks to Slaves about the mainstream, the NME tour and the rise of bedroom producers
