JW Paris scuffed up Britpop nostalgia with subversive swagger in Anything –

JW Paris followed on from the success of singles like “Geeks & Freaks”, “Who Are You”, and “Royalty” with their latest riotously kinetic indie earworm, Anything, released ahead of their 2025 EP. The London-based alt-rock three-piece, made up of Daniel Collins, Gemma Clarke (Babyshambles, Adam Ant), and Aaron Forde, broke down the barriers of consciousness and shot their 90s Britpop swagger straight through the foundations of constrictive identity parameters. If anything is going to convince you to shed your inhibitions… it’s Anything.

The hinges are still on, but only tightly enough to keep the shimmer of the jangly guitars luminous through the scuzz, the distortion deliciously woozy, and the percussion punctuated with the kind of Machiavellian panache that only someone who lives and breathes resistance to conformity could deliver. Vocally, all the right shots are fired to lead you down the rancorously electrifying rabbit-hole as the earworm proves how liberating it can be to take the best parts of existentialism, unchain your identity from expectation and embrace the liberation of cascading through subversions of reality.

Oasis may have dominated the Britpop summer, but now that the legacy acts have bedded down with the cash from their exorbitant ticket prices, JW Paris is owning Britpop autumn with a sound that loops possibility and identity into something freshly riotous.

Anything is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast