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Pulp, CMAT and Sam Fender among artists nominated for 2025 Mercury Prize

Britpop band Pulp previously won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

Evening Standard

CMAT, Pulp and PinkPantheress among Mercury prize shortlist light on new names

Only two debut albums – among them the ‘token’ jazz release – feature among this year’s list of nominations for the coveted UK and Irish music prize

The Guardian - UK

“I don't know if we're going to get back to Bohemian Rhapsody-length songs, but attention span is slowly creeping back up”: Song lengths are increasing after years-long decline, according to BBC study

The average length of a song in the UK Top 40 reached just under 3m 30s in 2025, up from an all-time low of around 3m 15s in 2019

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Add to playlist: Sarah Meth’s resplendent, intimate songwriting and the week’s best new tracks

The singer-songwriter’s warm laconic voice holds together lounge jazz stylings, dreamy pop and amenable folk, cut through with a self-deprecating wit

The Guardian - UK

“Her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world”: Producer Danny L Harle enlists “dream collaborator” PinkPantheress for Starlight, a song inspired by ‘90s Eurodance, '00s trance… and Elizabethan madrigals

“Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy - a guiding light in all of my music,” says Harle

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PinkPantheress pulls plug on Thursday Glasto set

PinkPantheress will no longer be playing Glastonbury on Thursday (26.06.25).

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"Everyone knew it would be carnage from the moment it was announced": PinkPantheress drops out of Glastonbury set with last-minute replacement

Fans have speculated that the performance was rescheduled to avoid overcrowding, but organizers say otherwise

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Who will have the 2025 song of the summer? We offer some predictions

What makes a great song of the summer

The Independent UK

Underworld, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada and William Orbit: PinkPantheress has sampled the cream of '90s and '00s UK electronic music on new mixtape, Fancy That

It's short on length, but heavy on influences

MusicRadar

From The Wedding Banquet to Kylie Minogue: your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead

The queer romcom gets an update with Lily Gladstone, while the revitalised Padam Padam hit-maker tours the UK’s big venues

The Guardian - UK

PinkPantheress: Fancy That review – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present

Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feel

The Guardian - UK

“Some people were questioning if I knew the genre and did my research, I guess because I’m young”: PinkPantheress says that having her authenticity doubted by dance music purists “was a bit annoying”

"I spoke to one of these jungle purists - and it was very interesting hearing his side of things," she adds

MusicRadar

Chappell Roan named BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2025 winner

She follows in the footsteps of previous winners including indie band The Last Dinner Party, three-piece girl group Flo, and singer PinkPantheress.

Evening Standard

PinkPantheress cancels string of major live shows: ‘It appears I have reached a wall’

The ‘Boy’s a Liar’ star said she hopes to see fans ‘once I return to health’

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"I don't listen to albums, I just listen to songs... do people care about tracklisting?": PinkPantheress on why the order of an album's tracks doesn't matter anymore

PinkPantheress says that she's more concerned with the strength of individual songs than how they come together as an overall body of work

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“I didn’t think I was really producing anything because I was writing and singing over drum ‘n’ bass beats”: PinkPantheress says she never thought she'd be recognised as a producer and that “even now, people don’t want to take my music seriously”

“As a woman of colour in electronic music, specifically two-step drum ‘n’ bass, it has taken a lot in the genre to be recognised on a wider scale"

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Watch Brit Awards live stream 2024 – nominees, start time, TV channel

How to watch a 2024 Brit Awards live stream for free online in the UK and beyond with a VPN. 2024 Brits start time, TV channel, nominees, performers and more.

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PinkPantheress to be named Producer of the Year at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards

“We are thrilled to honour PinkPantheress as one of the most exciting young producers on the rise,” says Billboard's Editorial Director

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Shygirl: 'It's really affirming to have people like Madonna and Björk reach out to connect through music'

The Mercury Award nominee talks going to Alton Towers with PinkPantheress, being inspired by Raye, and bagging her first ever MOBO nomination

The Guardian - AU

Triple J Hottest 100: could this be the countdown’s queerest year yet?

Troye Sivan, G Flip, Boygenius and Billie Eilish are all being tipped to place high in a year dominated by solo pop artists – but not Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

Little Simz and Stormzy top 2024 Mobo award nominations

Rappers each have four nominations, with Raye, Central Cee, J Hus and PinkPantheress following with three

The Guardian - AU

‘Euphoric’, ‘opalescent’, ‘perfect pop confection’: Australia’s best new music for December

Each month our critics pick 20 new songs for our Spotify playlist. Read about 10 of our favourites here, including Thelma Plum, The Native Cats and Holiday Sidewinder

The Guardian - UK

PinkPantheress: Heaven Knows review – the TikTok star plays it safe

The Londoner’s highly anticipated debut album is strongest when playing to millennial nostalgia while giving Gen Z something new

The Independent UK

Music Review: On 'Heaven Knows,' Internet pop sensation PinkPantheress provides IRL charms

Internet pop sensation PinkPantheress will release her debut full-length album on Friday, titled “Heaven Knows.”

The Guardian - UK

Barbie the Album review – a cynical exercise in corporate synergy

It falls to Sam Smith, PinkPantheress and Charli XCX to provide moments of flair on a relentlessly branded tie-in soundtrack that wears thin very quickly

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