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Chasing Shadows: Hazard’s ‘Never Going Home’ Echoes the Depths of Desolation

For their standout single, Never Going Home, the Welsh three-piece Hazard filtered psyched-up shoegaze-y post-punk through a grungy and intensely evocative lens, resulting in an emotionally tumultuous outpour of despondence. With vocals spilling into the middle ground between the haunting timbre of Placebo and the sharp confronting antagonism of Angels & Airwaves as the monochrome guitars carve a chill into the mind-bending production, Never Going Home unravels as a dark narrative that tears into the soul and triggers empathy as a dual-sided vignette of loneliness and displacement pours across the alchemic instrumentals.

If the reprise of “She’s never going home/I feel so alone” doesn’t hit hard, there’s probably not much hope for your soul.

There’s no better single to discover Hazard through; after ceaselessly evolving their sound since their 2019 dawning, their sound has culminated in an unflinchingly agonised attest to their ability to stir visceral emotion within their fans

Stream Never Going Home with the rest of Hazard’s sophomore LP, On a Dark Night in My Room via Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Drown My Demons: Welsh underground emcee YUNG LØNE tunes into his growing greatness on ‘66.6 FM’

Taken off his latest four-track EP named ‘The Beginning of the End‘, YUNG LØNE turns the heat up to high during these cold UK winter months with his new dialed-in track ‘66.6 FM‘.

YUNG LØNE is a highly motivated underground UK emcee and University student based in leafy Pembrokeshire, West Wales. At just twenty years old, you can feel his passionate vocal delivery and the determination entrenched in his voice that he wants to stream all over the world.

His dragon-like flow blows down the doubts, as he tells his honest story with bars that catch you unawares at first, the way he raps is incredibly appealing to the true hip-hop fan out there, who is sick of watered down fake bling plastic rhymes that break easily. They want that properly-constructed realness and this is it.

This scary story of facing the devil in front of him made him realize that he wanted more, the scars are there to humble him but are slowly healing as he finds his true purpose in life. Making music that truly matters is what he wants and this is what he shall do, no matter what detours he has to deal with in this winding pothole-filled world of unexpected surprises.

66.6 FM‘ from ferocious UK rapper YUNG LØNE, is a fiery track from a man on a mission. He lost his lighter just trying to get by but never lost his flame. He shows us all that it is possible to claw your way out of that quicksand that can hold you down and drag you to places you don’t want to be. Never stop dreaming and your goals are possible, only if you are hungry enough to succeed.

Stream this banger on Spotify and see more on his IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen