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Badd Energy - Underwater Pyramids

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

When writing a review, it can be extremely difficult to take an objective, non-partisan perspective and put my own personal taste to one side. Especially with the album Underwater Pyramids by Badd Energy, as it is a style of music that sits at the lower end of my music-enjoyment spectrum. Initially Read more...

Autechre - Exai

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

Anybody familiar with Mancunian duo Autechre will know they make some of the most complex, unconventional, inaccessible electronic music in the world. Their trademark sound is of stranded synth melodies, eerie digital drones, and pieces of electronic shrapnel ricocheting off one another to form Read more...

The Strokes - Comedown Machine

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

At this point in their career, The Strokes really don’t have much to lose. After releasing two near-perfect, critically-acclaimed albums in quick succession, the New York quintet stumbled on their overlong third LP First Impressions Of Earth, and have since failed to reignite the music world’s faith Read more...

David Bowie - The Next Day

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

Upon learning that David Bowie was to release his twenty-fourth studio album this year, my expectations weren’t altogether very high. With Bowie recently entering his sixty-sixth year on this planet, my mind instantly feared a lifeless and desperate-sounding record, the sound of an old man trying in Read more...

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Kathleen Hanna

Russ Meyer really liked boobs. His favourite Hollywood actress was Dolly Parton, he described 39DD-toting Anita Ekberg as “the most beautiful woman I ever photographed,” he had a penchant for casting women in their first trimester of pregnancy (gross), and his two favourite expressions were Read more...

The Host

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Fionnuala Bulman

Considering the Twilight saga brought over 10 hours of sparkly humans and pained expressions to our cinema screens, it’s fair to say I didn’t have huge hopes for The Host, the film adaptation of the sci-fi/romance novel written by Stephanie Meyer in 2008. It didn’t help that it was a Sunday morning, Read more...

No

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Gerard Barbalich

Those movies nominated for the illustrious Oscars are a typical bunch of tales (many think there are only seven tales) that take us on similar journeys, all similar but slightly different, and return us safely at the end. And for No, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, it Read more...

Jack the Giant Slayer

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Rosie Howells

Don’t we bloody love our expensive fairytale re-boots? Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman – all released within 18 months. And I think it’s fair to say they’ve hardly been instant classics, despite the obnoxious lineup of stars that sign on (I would assume Read more...

Bioshock Infinite

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Baz Macdonald

I could have written this review in five words: fucking awesome, go play it! However, it’s probably my responsibility to explain what exactly about Ken Levine’s new masterpiece Bioshock Infinite elicits this response. Despite the massive steps the video game industry has taken in the past 20 Read more...

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Thomas Thomson

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s latest novel. Relax. Concentrate … Let the world around you fade.” So begins Italo Calvino’s masterful, polyphonic novel If on a winter’s night a traveller. Published in 1979, self-referential and perfectly postmodern, this book is an examination Read more...