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EP Review: Charlotte Day Wilson – Stone Woman
Sniff all you like about the public taste; the Top 40 doesn’t lie. Last year, Ed Sheeran toddled away with the Christmas No.1 with a stately ballad. Dance DJs have swapped pounding breakbeats for relaxed vibes, and Drake’s newest global smash, currently standing at a colossal 358,000,000 streams, potters along at a sleepwalking 77 bpm. […]
EP Review: Dave – Game Over
The hype surrounding Dave, aka Santan Dave, has been bubbling away under the mainstream surface for some time now. Alongside UK grime stalwart AJ Tracey, he has released a steady stream of high-quality singles over the past year, each slightly different from his 2016 breakout EP Six Paths. A co-sign from Drake, adverts with Foot […]
EP Review: David Bowie – No Plan
January 10th 2017 marked the first anniversary of the death of David Bowie, the first birthday of the day where Western Pop Culture’s relationship with death and eulogy was turned on its head. Of course, as we were quickly informed, that fateful day was by no means Bowie’s date of departure from the music industry. Oh […]
EP Review: Declan Welsh – Alright
With the festival season in full flow, T in the Park – although as muddy as a duck puddle – certainly did not disappoint. With Saturday headliner Calvin Harris less than an hour away, a friend and I stumbled upon (literally, after a few cans of Tennent’s) a smaller stage on the way to the […]
Album Review: The Strokes – Future Present Past EP
After announcing themselves onto the world stage in 2001 with their prosperous debut album Is This It, The Strokes have been on quite the musical journey. With a hard act to follow, the New York City quintet have never quite managed to hit the musical heights of their previous projects; often owing to attempts at switching […]
EP Review: The Magic Gang – EP
The Magic Gang EP 8 January 2016; Telharmonium The Magic Gang are a four-piece from Brighton specialising in the kind of Weezer-esque geek rock anthems that were always bound to gain them attention from magazines like NME and DIY. As well as this, the lead single from this EP, “Jasmine”, has been featured regularly on […]
Album Review: Peacock Affect – Image 27
Peacock Affect is the closest thing imaginable to a collaboration between the xx and Earl Sweatshirt, and if that sounds depressing to you it’s because it is. This new EP is the latest in a series of small projects put out by local singer/guitarist George Holman, each more suicide-inducing than the last. Though if that […]
Album Review: Black Thistles – Pop Quiz EP
Exmouth’s own Black Thistles launched their newest EP Pop Quiz at a nautically themed boat party in Exmouth itself this August, a unique way to introduce a well rounded and refined EP. The opening track ‘222655’ (we can only assume this title is a private joke) is a catchy track that follows along nicely from […]
Album Review: Hippo Campus – South
Hippo Campus South EP 7 October 2015, Transgressive The buoyant, shuffle inducing sound of Hippo Campus’ first EP, Bashful Creatures, has taken a slightly different turn on their recent second, South. They retain the lofty guitar chimes, enticing melodies and Jake Luppen and Nathan Stocker’s work up and down the fret board continues to […]