Single Review: Jamie xx - LET'S DO IT AGAIN
Romance seeps through Jamie xx’s debut In Colour due to its grounding in the UK rave scene and ties to the xx’s delicate youth enthused guitar driven tracks. It remains still exploratory and new, and achieved something that had been brewing under the surface for many years without ever breaking through in full popular and critical acclaim: finding a stylistic intersection by putting out a dance record directly into the indie sphere.
I saw Jamie xx three times in the summer of 2021 across festiv
I saw Jamie xx three times in the summer of 2021 across festiv
Review: Puma Blue @ Thekla
Sipping red wine throughout the evening, Puma Blue brought his mystical blend of jazz, blues, and lo-fi post-punk to a near-capacity Thekla. Sheltered from the March rain, we were brought into his world of slow-burners and cathartic climaxes.
Having released his debut album ‘In Praise of Shadows’ in the midst of a global lockdown at the start of last year, this time of solitude and stillness made these tracks ultimately personal rather than shared. To release them to a room full of people all b
Having released his debut album ‘In Praise of Shadows’ in the midst of a global lockdown at the start of last year, this time of solitude and stillness made these tracks ultimately personal rather than shared. To release them to a room full of people all b
The Greatest Queer Love Songs
To celebrate LGBTQ+ history month, Jake Paterson rounds up some of the best queer love songs.
To think of love in a world created purely to be your own, in being able to find yourself along a forever shifting plane between the two biological binaries, I think of SOPHIE. ‘Immaterial’, from the revolutionary OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES, breathes colour to this grey area. Through SOPHIE’s expression of art and her mind, gender and love become whatever you choose them to be. Love becomes an emo
To think of love in a world created purely to be your own, in being able to find yourself along a forever shifting plane between the two biological binaries, I think of SOPHIE. ‘Immaterial’, from the revolutionary OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES, breathes colour to this grey area. Through SOPHIE’s expression of art and her mind, gender and love become whatever you choose them to be. Love becomes an emo
Epigram Music's 100 Best Songs of 2021
In our greatest feat yet, Epigram Music brings you our top 100 songs of 2021, as chosen and reviewed by our writers. We humbly present the soundtrack to another strange year (in no particular order as we don't believe in pitting great artists against each other):
Firstly, shoutout to Vu’s album cover that looks like the picture I sent to student health when I had tonsilitis. Secondly, shoutout to Vu for making one of the best album debuts of this year. ‘April Fool’ is the opening track from ‘Pu
Firstly, shoutout to Vu’s album cover that looks like the picture I sent to student health when I had tonsilitis. Secondly, shoutout to Vu for making one of the best album debuts of this year. ‘April Fool’ is the opening track from ‘Pu
Jake's Albums of the Year 2021
Capitalised by uncertainty and breaking into negative space as the world continued to ebb and flow through another year, music came as an essential navigation through time alone, with friends and complete strangers both in the light and dark of casual gatherings, internet chatrooms, and clubs and sticky floored venues packed with people searching for a shared experience to become one with.
Time has divided us into individuals, yet in a culture where ‘bedroom artists’ such as Arlo Parks can win
Time has divided us into individuals, yet in a culture where ‘bedroom artists’ such as Arlo Parks can win
Live Review: Courtney Marie Andrews, St George's
Performing songs from her 2020 album Old Flowers for the first time, Courtney Marie Andrews, alone on the stage, seemed at once a beacon of hope and a return home to a better way of life, bringing the crowd for the most part to absolute silence in awe of her presence.
As a venue used to accommodating classical and performative work, St George’s was perhaps the perfect venue for Andrews, of what was my first seated gig in some time, sat in church pews as if at a service and part of a congregatio
As a venue used to accommodating classical and performative work, St George’s was perhaps the perfect venue for Andrews, of what was my first seated gig in some time, sat in church pews as if at a service and part of a congregatio
Album Review: Song for our Daughter - Laura Marling
Taken from: The Sound of the University of Bristol
Irked by a sense of nostalgia deep within the stillness of 2020, I put on a CD entitled 'Spring 2009', taken from a plastic wallet deep amongst the years of my dad's musical life. On it, a 16-year-old Laura Marling sings of everlasting love with an unmatched voice.
Irked by a sense of nostalgia deep within the stillness of 2020, I put on a CD entitled 'Spring 2009', taken from a plastic wallet deep amongst the years of my dad's musical life. On it, a 16-year-old Laura Marling sings of everlasting love with an unmatched voice.
