• Album Review: James Blake – The Colour In Anything

    Enriched by gorgeous watercolour artwork from veteran illustrator and namesake Quentin, The Colour In Anything is James Blake’s much awaited, seventy-minute, return. Professed favourite of Kanye West, few in electronic pop have had as much impact as Blake upon the sound palate of the output of their peers. In...
  • Album Review: Beyoncé – Lemonade

    Following her 2014 self-titled visual album, on Sunday night Beyoncé Carter gave us her sixth studio album, Lemonade. The LP arrived with a short film and was framed as, as the TIDAL statement that accompanied the released deemed it, a ‘conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self-knowledge and healing’. Several...
  • Where Is Your ‘Ivy Park’?

    The moment has finally arrived. Beyoncé Knowles has just released the athleisure-wear line ‘Ivy Park’. March 31st flaunted a handful of strong promotional images and a mesmerising launch video that Beyoncé fans devoured with eager enthusiasm.   The line itself is made up of a mixture of leotards, leggings,...
  • Political Correctness Gone Mad? Cultural Appropriation Controversies

    Beyonce, of all people, is the latest figure to come under fire for the crime of ‘cultural appropriation’. This oppressive act has begun cropping up more and more recently, as students, news outlets and certain institutions have led a crusade against cultural appropriation, whether it be Yoga teachers or...
  • Beyonce and Black Feminism

    On the 13th December 2013, Beyoncé dropped 14 unique music videos unannounced, with no prior warning, the world went Bey crazy. Fast forward two years and two months later, she did it again. But this time she didn’t need 14 music videos to cause a political storm: only one. On...
  • Formation: Beyonce is Back

    Beyoncé has just surprised her fans with a new single ‘Formation’. 2016 is proving to be a good year for pop music so far with all the multi-platinum selling artists coming out of hibernation. With the unexpected released of Beyoncé’s last album ‘Beyoncé’ in 2013, it seems that the...
  • Album Review: Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams

    A Head Full of Dreams is far from a disappointment, even if it isn’t a magnificent triumph. Coldplay seem to be reborn with this album, that rejoices in the sheer pleasure of being alive. Like its heady artwork, the album is psychedelic and rousing. The title track, which is also the...