Music is undoubtedly getting louder. From the moment the dial was turned up to 11 in This Is Spinal Tap, musicians and producers have, on the whole, been reluctant to turn the volume down. A recent study in Scientific Report proved that music has, indeed, been steadily getting louder since the mid-1960s, as the belief that ‘louder is better’ becomes increasingly commonplace. At the […]
Review: The Death of Stalin
Secret dealings, cabinet reshuffles, political scheming… Armando Iannucci’s first major project since his departure from Veep in 2015 could easily be another of his scabrous attacks on contemporary politics. With The Death of Stalin, however, he turns instead to history, chronicling the power struggles in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in […]