Exeposé Music writers share their stories of significant songs in their lives.
Swim Against the Tide: An Interview with The Japanese House
Among the collection of highly anticipated albums to be released this spring includes the debut record from The Japanese House, the solo project of London-based Amber Bain. The dream-pop and electronica signature of The Japanese House is one of the blossoming sounds on dynamic indie label Dirty Hit Records, and Bain took some time to […]
The end is nigh – about to gradu-ache
I MUST admit, I have been guilty of watching the weeks left of term decrease this side of Christmas. It’s a strange one as term two always feels longer than its predecessor due to the absence of reading week, yet simultaneously seems to fly by as quickly as the others. Most importantly, like for many […]
Reindeers Can’t See Red, Study Reveals
University of Exeter scientists have discovered that it is unlikely that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was bullied because of his nose colour, as reindeer lack the colour-detecting cells that allow their eyes to see the colour red. With the same reasoning applying for the colour orange, the research, conducted by Exeter MSc student Maria […]
Album Review: The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Shortly after the release of The 1975’s second record in 2016, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware of it, eclectic frontman Matty Healy described the group to MTV as being “the biggest band in the world that nobody’s ever heard of”. Two years on, perhaps only the first half […]
How to Build a Better Britain: An Interview with Owen Jones
You could say that Owen Jones has a knack for spotting trouble – the socio-political kind, at least. In 2011, less than half a decade since graduating from Oxford with a postgraduate degree in U.S. History, he published his first novel, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, which unexpectedly threw him into the spotlight […]
What the Funk? The Success of Modern Germany’s Mass Media
Considering the development of the modern printing press took place in fifteenth-century Mainz, western Germany, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that the landscape of German media consumption today looks as strong as its economy. In recent years, the outlook of printed newspapers in the UK has been bleak; it is perhaps best […]
Album Review: Boy Azooga – 1, 2, Kung Fu!
It’s late on a sunny Saturday morning in Cardiff where Spillers Records, the oldest record shop in the world, tucked away in the cherished maze of arcades in the heart of the city, is playing the debut record from Boy Azooga; a fitting backdrop for one of the most exciting young Welsh groups on the […]
Album Review: Years & Years – Palo Santo
Pop music is currently carving a particularly fascinating era, leaving a layered and relevant mark on the second half of the 2010s. Post-#MeToo, the likes of Christine and the Queens and Janelle Monáe are gloriously pushing boundaries of exploring female sexuality in song. Yet whilst the definition of male sexuality is being scrutinised more than […]
Thom Yorke, Mental Health & BBC 6 Music: An Interview with Zurich
Oxford is subtly nestled in Britain’s music scene, yet its homegrown acts include Radiohead, Foals and more recently, BBC Introducing act Zurich. I chatted to Chris and Adrian about the group’s influences, favourite fellow Oxford groups and how they added mental health into their song topics. I’ve read on your website that you describe your music as ‘widescreen […]