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Songs with Soul – Channel Orange

The lyrical genius that is Frank Ocean has never been one to shy away from confronting world issues. In his debut studio album, Channel Orange from 2012, which features an amalgamation of soul, hip hop and R&B, Ocean provides the listeners with the painful processes that are attached to drug taking; what it is like to […]

Album Review: Jessie Ware – Glasshouse

The struggle in Jessie Ware’s newest album, Glasshouse, is clear. The album is caught between Ware – a talented, complex and innovative writer and singer; and Island Records, a commercially-obsessed subsidiary of the goliath Universal Records. As a result, the album is left with a very distinct pattern. The album features a few creative masterpieces […]

Album Review: Lil Pump – Lil Pump

I love bad reviews. There’s a perverse joy in seeing somebody get absolutely demolished in a review. Take Pete Wells’ legendary 2012 New York Times review of Guy Fieri’s Times Square location. It’s fantastically funny, a brutal takedown of the total bastardisation of American barbecue that Fieri’s restaurant represents. It reminds me of Lil Pump’s […]

Live Review: Frank Ocean @ Parklife 2017

At 10:00pm on Sunday evening, the final night of Manchester’s Parklife festival, the enormous mass of people gathered outside the main stage was getting fidgety. Frank Ocean had been due on stage at 9:30, and I’d been waiting at the barrier with Matt for three hours to ensure a good spot for the show. All […]

Exeposé Music’s Best Albums of 2016 | Top 20

[50-41]    [40-31]    [30-21]    [Top 20] 20   Frankie Cosmos  Next Thing After releasing over 40 albums and EPs on Bandcamp, the former Porches bassist has expanded on her early promise with sophomore album Next Thing.  A lo-fi indie rock rollercoaster, Cosmos has a distinct talent of cramming her brand of observational and witty suburban […]

Album Review: Frank Ocean – Blonde

It has been over 4 years since the release of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange album. After a period of silence from Ocean following his debut, “where’s the album, Frank?’ memes began to taken over the internet. From Twitter to Tumblr to Facebook and everywhere in between, the world was in anticipation of more. With every […]