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ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Sleep Through The Storm is eight tracks of beautiful, bewitching, cyclical and warm electronic minimalism, intended to guard us from 2020

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Track: Blue States drop ‘Friendly Fires’ from the expanded ‘Nothing Changes …’

IT’S HARD to believe that Blue States downbeatz classic, Nothing Changes Under the Sun, has reached its twentieth anniversary – who pressed fast forward, cos it wasn’t me; but it’s…

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TRACK: Annie returns with first album in a decade: hear ‘Corridors Of Time’

ANNIE, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and DJ who soo should’ve had the whole world supplicant on the back of the brilliant “Chewing Gum” back in the day, is all set to…

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LFF Review: Wildfire

Whilst ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland might be over (although there are worrying signs that this isn’t the case) it doesn’t mean that those who lived through them can just…

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Grimmfest Review: Triggered

One of the great joys of watching genre cinema is the amount of films where a bunch of suspiciously model-like and relentlessly annoying ‘teenagers’ come to a succession of bloody…

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Whilst animation has always been popular with cinema audiences, until recently it was only really Disney films which attracted mainstream attention. With the rise in popularity of Pixar, Studio Ghibli…

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LFF Review: Mogul Mowgli

Of all the British actors who have made their breakthrough over the past decade, it’s perhaps Riz Ahmed who has made the biggest impression. Since coming to prominence in Four…

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LFF Review: Never Gonna Snow Again

Whilst Polish cinema has always been surprisingly fertile, it’s witnessing somewhat of a renaissance at the moment. Historically, the likes of Kieślowski, Wajda, Munk and Żuławski have created some of…

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LFF Review: I am Samuel

If you’re gay and out in most places in the world you’re likely to face some level of prejudice and/or discrimination on a daily basis. However, whilst it’s all highly…

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Track: Trivium frontman Matt Heafy shares a cover of My Mother Told Me taken from TV Show Vikings

Trivium frontman Matthew Kiichi Heafy, has shared a new solo track in the form of – “My Mother Told Me”. The track is a cover of a song that appeared…

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ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Track: Blue States drop ‘Friendly Fires’ from the expanded ‘Nothing Changes …’

TRACK: Annie returns with first album in a decade: hear ‘Corridors Of Time’

LFF Review: Wildfire

Grimmfest Review: Triggered

LFF Review: Wolfwalkers

LFF Review: Mogul Mowgli

LFF Review: Never Gonna Snow Again

LFF Review: I am Samuel

Track: Trivium frontman Matt Heafy shares a cover of My Mother Told Me taken from TV Show Vikings