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Album Review: They Might Be Giants – Glean

Do you remember when music’s primary function was to provide fun entertainment? It’s something that has been increasingly overlooked in recent years, and the majority of attempts to remind us…

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Film Review: Force Majeure

Relationships are based on trust and understanding. There’s a tendency to bury issues and try to continue on with the relationship as if nothing is wrong. Often unsaid anxieties and…

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Incoming: Lost River

Lost River weaves elements of fantasy noir and suspense into a modern day fairytale. Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is…

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Track: Black Honey – Spinning Wheel

Brighton beauties Black Honey reveal the other half of their double A side single and its recent live favourite ‘Spinning Wheel’. Spinning Wheel opened the shows on their recent tour…

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Album Reviews

Album Review: Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Not since Seven Swans has Sufjan Stevens put out such a confessional, introspective, and heartfelt record. Even more, while Seven Swans was heartfelt and confessional, it was a generalization of those feelings of life,…

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Music

News: Final Cambridge Folk Festival line-up announced

Singing Scottish twins The Proclaimers are the latest big name added to the Cambridge Folk Festival bill joining veteran peacenik Joan Baez, posh troubadour Frank Turner, Joan Armatrading and Wilko…

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DVD Review: Han Gong-ju

South Korean cinema’s fortune seems to fluctuate like the wind. Around the middle of the last decade it was the Asian powerhouse with international hits such as The Host, A…

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Not Forgotten: Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

‘Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends’ How’s that for a killer opening line? Read it again. It’s brilliant. It’s irresistable, pulling you in, promising a life-affirming…

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Live Review: A Place to Bury Strangers – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds 03.04.2015 plus Gallery

This was one of those gigs that had you bristling you with anticipation. You know the type, the ones where you are not quite sure what is going to happen,…

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Incoming: Broken Horses

Set in the shadows of the US-Mexico border gang wars, Broken Horses is an epic thriller about the bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty and the futility of violence.…

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Album Review: They Might Be Giants – Glean

Film Review: Force Majeure

Incoming: Lost River

Track: Black Honey – Spinning Wheel

Album Review: Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

News: Final Cambridge Folk Festival line-up announced

DVD Review: Han Gong-ju

Not Forgotten: Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

Live Review: A Place to Bury Strangers – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds 03.04.2015 plus Gallery

Incoming: Broken Horses