11 Years of Record Store Day is happening on Saturday, April 21st. Cue your 5am alarms, get your coffee ready to go, so you can head out the door bleary eyed to try and beat the rush to get your hands on a limited release from your favourite artist. This scene of events will most likely […]
Proud Disturber of the Peace: An Interview with William the Conqueror’s Ruarri Joseph
Ruarri Joseph’s new alternative project, William The Conqueror, released their awaited debut album, Proud Distributer of the Peace, earlier this year. Joseph’s new rock focused endeavour, recorded in sessions throughout the band’s trip to Cornwall and the Isle of Lewis, draws from Americana and bluesy-indie rock. The band’s gritty sound has gained them a following, […]
Treat yo’ self?
Deadlines have been killing me, my coffee supply is diminishing, and my umbrella has been inverted and attacked through some horrendous weather. Needless to say, I have been aimlessly stalking the internet for things to brighten up my mood and embrace Autumn (basically making a pointless list of things I really don’t need.) Etsy is wonderful […]
Album Review: The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
Pennsylvanian rooted, electropop and neo-psychedelia band, The War on Drugs, released their 4th studio album, A Deeper Understanding, on 25th August. This became their first record alongside the major label ‘Atlantic Records’, who took them on after their 2014 success, Lost in The Dream. Their later album was heavily introspective, claustrophobic, and rife with intense […]
Album Review: Daughter – Music from Before the Storm
It’s only just been over a year ago since Daughter once again captured and shattered our hearts with their surreal and ethereal album Not to Disappear (2015), epitomising a tragic decline of individual selfhood. The indie folk band, of guitarist and vocalist Elena Tonra, guitarist Igor Haefeli, and drummer Remi Aguiella, didn’t stay static after […]
The Return of Taylor Swift
Last week, Taylor Swift broke her silence after her 2014 1989 success, by ironically furthering a ‘visible’ silence; deleting her social media presence and teasing fans with the potential recreation for a new album. A few visual enigmas later, here we are with an album name (reputation) a release date (November 10th) and a choreographed […]
Review: Better Call Saul. Season 3
Jimmy McGill is back. Season 3 has arrived, and Jimmy’s trajectory appears nothing but downhill in the realm of achieving a respectable career in law. Set six years before the narrative of Breaking Bad, Jimmy seems a far stretch away from his well-loved persona as Saul Goodman. Seriously, when will this guy catch a break? […]
Record Store Day 2017
It’s come around already; the calendar event for music and vinyl enthusiasts to get up at a god-awful time, queue on a desolate street, to (hopefully) get their hands on some cherished pieces. After launching in 2007, Record Store Day’s cultural impact has been on a upward trajectory, with across the nation avid music fans […]
Album Review: Ryan Adams – Prisoner
Two years ago, Ryan Adams postponed production of Prisoners to experiment with the track-by-track remediation of Taylor Swift’s 1989. After waiting three years for self-written content, and a ‘heartbreak’ album tackling his divorce from Mandy Moore, we were instead given an indirect sense of Adam’s initial wounds vicariously via Swift’s own emotional lyrics. Rather than […]