How Personal Parade Bandana Swim Brief Took Over Social Media This Summer
How Personal Parade Bandana Swim Brief Took Over Social Media This Summer
Words: Miles Holder
All images: personalparade.com
I still remember the first time I came across the Personal Parade bandana swim brief - it wasn’t in a glossy ad or a polished press release, but on a friend’s Instagram story in 2023. Within a few weeks, it was impossible to scroll through my feed without…
Blood Orange Essex Honey Review – Every Track Ranked
Blood Orange Essex Honey Review - Track-by-track breakdown
Blood Orange Essex Honey Review
When Blood Orange (Dev Hynes) releases an album it's always an event. With Essex Honey, his first full-length in over six years, Blood Orange is back with a very personal (FAULTLessly so?) record about grief, community, and about art as survival.
Like much of Hynes’ catalogue, it’s not an album…
Trumpets, Chaos and Survival – Perera Elsewhere in Conversation with FAULT
Berlin-based, UK-raised musician, producer, DJ, and trumpeter Perera Elsewhere has never been easy to pin down. Dubbed the pioneer of ‘doom folk’, her work has always embraced contrasts: experimental yet emotive, cerebral yet deeply physical. With her fourth album Just Wanna Live Some, due out on 24th October 2025 via Friends of Friends, Perera expands her sonic palette once again, weaving…
Bailey Zimmerman On The Raw and Refined World of Different Night Same Rodeo
Bailey Zimmerman X FAULT Magazine
Bailey Zimmerman’s sophomore album Different Night Same Rodeo arrives as both a bold creative statement and a deeply personal milestone. Across 18 tracks, the Illinois-born artist pushes his sound beyond traditional country confines, pairing raw storytelling with genre-blurring collaborations that showcase his versatility. Where his debut captured the…
Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend Review – Track by Track Deep Dive
FAULTless Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend Review
With Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter cements herself as one of pop’s most self-aware storytellers. It’s sharp, funny, messy, vulnerable often all within the same verse. While I found myself laughing at her cheekier lines one minute and unexpectedly emotional the next, what struck me most was how much her fans seemed to echo that…
The Best Places in Spain for a Luxurious Getaway
Photo: Saso Vukadinovic
Spain has always known how to do luxury with a quiet kind of confidence. It’s in the way golden light falls across terracotta rooftops, in the rhythm of long lunches that stretch into sunset, and in the blend of history and style that runs through its towns and cities.
A truly luxurious escape here isn’t just about villas with sweeping views or fine dining…
Ruti -‘If I Could Choose It Would Be You’ – is a Soul-Stirring New Single
Ruti - 'If I Could Choose It Would Be You'
Images courtesy of the artist for Ruti - 'If I Could Choose It Would Be You'
Rising artist Ruti (they/them) continues to defy genre labels with the release of their latest single, Ruti - ‘If I Could Choose It Would Be You’ - a beautifully understated yet emotionally resonant track that showcases a new, more intimate creative direction.…
Chloë Cassens talks legacy, Jean Cocteau’s timelessness, and writing Sacred Monster
Chloë Cassens
Photo: Frédéric Tröhler
Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Paris, writer and educator Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest archive of artworks by Jean Cocteau. As Wunderman’s daughter and a longtime scholar of Cocteau, Cassens is devoted to introducing the French surrealist polymath to new audiences.
Through her biweekly essay…