For Toronto outsider pop auteur Saya Gray, music is a glittering mosaic of endless influences.
Her body of work is akin to a sonic chimera; its limbs assembled from disparate, but complimentary musical organisms. Does she make pop? Folk? Rock? R&B? The moment you think you’ve got her pinned, she’s gone like a flash. “I’m constantly moving, physically and emotionally and spiritually” says Gray. “The influence of whatever’s around you will always seep in. [It’s why] I’ve been a vagabond for a very long time.”
Gray’s often collage-like sonicspheres, blanketed with layers of riffs upon layers of electronic chatter, demonstrate the limitless potential of music as an art form.
Dance while King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard evolve in real time – taking their extensive oeuvre through a complete transformation – swapping their no nonsense guitars and fuzz pedals for a bastardised fully modular synthesis table that shares the same beating heart of their ethos – ambitious, improvised and epiphanic. Rave and freak out.
SATURDAY 1 NOV 9pm (SOLD OUT).
SUNDAY 2 NOV 7pm – (SOLD OUT).
The Temper Trap are back with new music and a headline show at O2 Forum Kentish Town in November.
An intimate one-off performance of seldom performed songs, reimagined and with special guest voices.
With past events: POP CRYPT *LIVE* and POP CRYPT II: DAY & NIGHT, featuring intricate performances and sets from the likes of A. G. Cook, Dorian Electra, Dux Content, EASYFUN B2B Finn Keane, Thy Slaughter (with bandmates Caroline Polachek and Ellie Rowsell), Tommy Cash and many more, this year is set to surpass anything seen in the crypt before.
Michelle Gurevich’s brings her 7th bedroom produced album – It Was the Moment – to Jazz Cafe in October. It will not disappoint those anticipating a new soundtrack for their darkness and saudade. It may even be her most vulnerable and expressive work yet, with themes of a fatalistic submission to passion, the ephemeral nature of encounters, the loss of mother and home, the end of days, and losing one’s mind in both the best and worst ways possible. Michelle offers her entire palette of sound here, from dark Lynchian realism, to elegant humor, to queen of epic melodrama.
Tickets are now SOLD OUT.
Chet Faker first endeared himself to a devoted international following with a haunting cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” that catapulted him into the spotlight in 2011. He followed that up with the much-lauded Lockjaw EP with Flume and his 2014 platinum-selling debut album Built On Glass, which cemented him as a world-class talent and earned him a slew of ARIA Awards. In the years since, he’s continued to build a critically acclaimed discography – including 2021’s full-length Hotel Surrender and multiple releases under his birth name, Nick Murphy – and has toured the world, playing sold-out headline shows and stages including Coachella, Lollapalooza, and countless more. New music from Chet Faker is imminent.
Thursday 23 October is now SOLD OUT.
Friday 24 October is now SOLD OUT.
Naima Bock tours the UK this Autumn for a selection of intimate, stripped back shows in great venues around the UK. Her second album ‘Below A Massive Dark Land’ was released by Sub Pop in late 2024 to rave reviews from Uncut, Mojo, The Line of Best Fit, Clash and beyond.