Category: Review
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TRACK REVIEW: Rising Pacific – Parts
Founded in November 2013, Falkirk band Rising Pacific have been cited, in typical Scottish fashion, as a “cracking wee three piece band” and one of the best young acts around which is no real surprise considering the material they’ve released so far. Naked, a single released at the tail end of 2015, featured the band channeling their inner…
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TV REVIEW: House Of Cards – Season 1
Breaking Bad meets politics meets Shakespeare in Netflix’s greatest, grittiest show. “There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong. Or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things. Moments like this require someone who will act. To do the unpleasant thing.…
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GAME REVIEW: Hotline Miami (PS4)
While I don’t often review games here on my blog, it’s safe to say that anytime that I’m not listening to an album or eating my bodyweight in cheese, I’m playing a videogame. As a student though, a poor one at that, games aren’t as easy to come by for me as splashing out £30+…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
An out of nowhere release from Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar results in one of the most enjoyable listens of 2016 2015 belonged to Kendrick Lamar. In a year full of police brutality and heated politics, To Pimp A Butterfly stood out as the jazz drenched perspective of a man from Compton who has witnessed…
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TRACK REVIEW: Modern Baseball – Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind
Pennsylvanian emo, punk rock act Modern Baseball showcase new material from their forthcoming album Back in the 90’s, pop punk was fairly content in delivering jokes about fucking mums, getting drunk and farts, perfectly accompanying any and every party you could ever attend due to its catchiness and simplicity that made it accessible to pretty…
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TV REVIEW: True Detective – Season 1
In news that’ll shock no one, life is complicated and as much as we all want it to be simple and stress free, events arise that put us through emotional turmoil and change us in both positive and negative ways. AMC’s Breaking Bad captured this to an extent though not many of us can say…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Yung Lean – Warlord
Internet icon, nostalgia enthusiast and rapper Yung Lean releases his second LP that takes baby steps towards progression. Warlord by Yung Lean | Release Date: 25th Feb 2016 | Label: Year0001 Ask someone what internet celebrities they know and they’re more than likely to mention your typical…
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Moderat – Reminder EP REVIEW
German electronic act Moderat managed to overcome the ever fatal second album syndrome that infects any band who release a critically acclaimed debut, a triumph in itself. However, when your track record now features two well received LPs, how on earth do you pull it off again? In Moderat’s case they’ve done more of the…
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Dan & Drum-Fixin Up Right TRACK REVIEW
In the world of music, sometimes it’s not just your sound that is important but your own public persona, something that can help change you from being just another white boy with a guitar into something else entirely. Take Mac DeMarco for example, a talented artist whose wacky, odd sense of humour and actions help…
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Catfish And The Bottlemen – Soundcheck TRACK REVIEW
Every so often, there’ll be a band that manage to come along and achieve a substantially large following out of thin air which brings along with it social media being flooded by their fans saying how much they love a certain band member and their music. This happened with Arctic Monkeys, more infamously it happened with The…
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