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Album Review: Eternal Atake 2 // Lil Uzi Vert  Eternal Atake 2 is the fourth studio album from Philadelphia-born rapper Lil Uzi Vert, following their 2023 […]

Are Bonfire Night traditions at risk of disappearing? 419 years ago today, Guy Fawkes was caught loitering beneath the House of Lords with a pocketful of fuses and a […]

Book Review: A Kiss for the Absolute // Shuzo Takiguchi A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, translated from the Japanese by Mary Jo Bang and […]

Album Review: Songs Of A Lost World // The Cure It’s been a long 16 years since Robert Smith and The Cure released their last studio album. In that time, m […]

Track Review: Image (Grimes Special) // Magdalena Bay The original single for Magdalena Bay’s 2024 ‘Image’ is a strange mix of genres merging disco, avant-pop and […]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Already Broken BioWare Steam Records Dragon Age: The Veilguard has broken records only a few hours after the game’s release. Dragon Age: The V […]

Poem of the Week: Riversong // Robert Macfarlane and Nick Hayes Poetry is sometimes thought of as a rather static, old-fashioned medium that is only read by poets. It […]

Witchcraft Today: Modern Witches, And Their Influence On Pop Culture And Daily Life Witches have long been depicted as villains in society, whether they’re scheming and plotting in children’s fai […]

Track Review: The Beginning of The End // Courteeners featuring DMA’s Manchester. It’s a place that’s hard to beat when it comes to the successes of its musical offspring. The […]

'The Convert' Review: A Quietly Powerful and Grounded Drama Lee Tamahori’s picture of faith in war-torn Aotearoa is a conventional period drama elevated by its quietly g […]

TV Review: 'Disclaimer' is the Best TV Show of the Year Directed and written by Alfonso Cuarón, Disclaimer is a brilliant miniseries, if not the best of the entire […]

The Month in Games – November 2024 For 2024’s penultimate offerings, players will discover there is more than one way to explore the worlds a […]

Album Review: Cartoon Darkness // Amyl and The Sniffers In the history of album openers, it is hard to think of any track that makes quite as immediate an impression […]

Book Review: Emotional Support Horse // Claudine Toutoungi  Emotional Support Horse is the multi-talented Claudine Toutoungi’s third collection published by Carcanet, a […]

Brat: How Charli xcx’s album has become a cultural phenomenon The year 2024 seems to have been the resurrection of dance, hyperpop and indie sleaze. All of this having been […]

The Sexualisation of Halloween: Empowering, Regressive or Just Fun? Halloween has always been a night to transform, surprise, and sometimes scandalise. But in recent years, it’s […]

Track Review: Your House // Inhaler Irish rock band Inhaler are back with addictive new single, ‘Your House’. Minutes after the single aired on BBC […]

Album Review: "&" (Ampersand) // Bastille English band Bastille have released their fifth LP: & is an ambitious experiment of sound and storytelling. The […]

Album Review: CHROMAKOPIA // Tyler, The Creator Tyler, the Creator’s latest release, CHROMAKOPIA, blends deep reflection with energetic hype tracks and b […]