Alex Watkin

After Wolf Alice’s BRIT award winning album ‘Blue Weekend’, it’s great to see the band back with a stripped back, acoustic EP. The tracks sound warm and beautiful, as if recorded in the band’s bedroom, but the short selection of songs when compared to the full album makes the...

Nine months after the critically panned ‘Certified Lover Boy’, Drake births a surprise album. In desperate need of a shake-up, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ sees Champagne Papi dip his little toes into the genre of house music. Tim Ovenden breaches the murky depths to offer his feelings towards the album. From...

Released on 20th May 2022, Terence Davies’ Benediction is a war/drama film following the story of famous poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was inspired to write poetry after his return from the battlefields, and his entrance into the literary/stage world of London; he became a vocal critic of the war,...

After the smash hit of Normal People two years ago, Conversations with Friends is BBC Three’s new Sally Rooney adaptation. With the same writers, directors, and production team back to put the pages on the screen, I've been anxiously waiting to see if lightning could strike twice. Unfortunately, as...

Everything Everything have produced a fantastic album, using some of the better elements of their past albums while adding some modern synth beats and some excellent new ideas to create an entertaining but slightly drawn-out album. Alex Tearle reviews…...

Enter Shikari - a band with a weird name, weird style of music, and weird song names. They are also one of the best live acts in Britain, with a command over the stage and the crowd that even the largest bands on the planet would struggle to replicate....

Anatomy of a Scandal released onto Netflix on the 15th April 2022. It is a thriller-drama, consisting of only six 45-minute episodes. It follows the fictional story of Conservative MP James Whitehouse, and his wife Sophie. It starts with an affair with an aide, but quickly takes a significantly...