Coming hot off of their blistering 2016 record Bottomless Pit, expectations for industrial hip-hop group Death Grips’ sixth album Year of the Snitch were high. From their tech-phobic masterpiece The Money Store, (recorded in 2011 at the height of the Wikileaks scandal) to 2015’s synth-laden trap double EP The Powers that B, the Californian trio have carved out […]
Album Review: MGMT – Little Dark Age
In 2007, Connecticut-born Indie-Rock duo MGMT (made up of multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser) released their spell-binding debut Oracular Spectacular. Simmering with synth-laden poppy beats and gorgeous neo-psychedelic vocals, the band were soon catapulted into the mainstream with stadium hits like ‘Kids’, ‘Time to Pretend’ and the sultry ‘Electric Feel’. Indeed, Oracular felt at the time like […]
Paranoid Fan-Droid: Why I Stan Radiohead
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead. Where to begin? Formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire, the band have been a cultural mainstay since their 1992 grunge anthem, ‘Creep’. With a career spanning nine Grammy-winning albums, three headlining Glastonbury performances, and no less than six ground-breaking commercial, cinematic and technological innovations in the music industry, they’re easily one of the […]
Remember this: The Before Trilogy
The year is 1994. The location: a train from Budapest to Vienna. And the players: two amorous strangers with a penchant for lengthy musings on everything from cultural tribalism, familial affection, and Austrian avant garde theatre. This is Before Sunrise. Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Celine respectively, two twenty-somethings who decide to […]