FLEET Foxes’ eponymous debut album is a game changer for sure. Certainly, folk rock took a good, hard look at itself after Robin Pecknold’s merry band of musicians came out with this gem, an...
WHEN I FIRST listened to The National, way back in 2011, I dismissed them as being, drab, boring and slow. Oh what a young sceptic I was. Revisiting High Violet around three and a...
IF AT FOLSOM Prison isn’t one of the best live albums of all time, it’s certainly one of the most important. The songs, the banter, The atmosphere, it has everything. It’s the album that...
ANDREW wants to incur the wrath of cineastes everywhere and tackle the belated Oscar darling of 2014: it is, of course, chuffing Boyhood. Where to begin with Boyhood? It’s a hard task to class the...
WITH ANOTHER cruel sweep of its hand, 2016 has taken away another star. Prince Rogers Nelson was an innovator when it came to funk, soul and R&B music, being cited as an inspiration by...
IT’S FINALLY here. Five long years have passed, but finally, finally, PJ Harvey’s follow up to her amazing Let England Shake has landed. In a process that saw the singer (unsurprisingly) travel to Afghanistan...
A LOT OF PEOPLE might argue that R.E.M.’s reputation as one of the greatest alternative rock bands (or at least one of the most successful) came with their seminal 1992 album Automatic For The...
IT’S SAFE TO say that The Walking Dead has been in some rocky territory recently. Seasons four and five dragged by with little interest, the show seemingly reaching its inevitable cancellation. Sure, it picked up...
WE ALL HAVE that album that relates to some of the best memories of our lives. For me, British Indietronica band Metronomy produced that album. Despite attending university in Wales, The English Riviera soundtracked...
THE APPARENT ‘blood relative’ of 2008’s Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane ditches the found-footage genre for something more of a psychological thriller. With J.J. Abrams staying on as producer, 10 Cloverfield Lane sees Dan Trachtenberg...
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