• Divide Review: “It’s not innovative, but it works for Ed Sheeran”

    Ed Sheeran has made an incredible come back, breaking chart records with 16 songs in UK Top 20, but is his album Divide really worthy of the hype?   Perhaps not. The album starts with ‘Eraser’, an interesting choice considering Ed is not best known for his rap skills....
  • English Tapas Review: “We need a voice like Sleaford Mods in today’s society”

    You’ve seen it on the backs of buses; the brash talking bass thumping Nottingham bred duo Sleaford Mods have returned with album number four – English Tapas, and they’ve only gone and teamed up with Rough Trade to produce it! If I’m being honest, I stuck the album on...
  • Music Award Shows: I don’t give a shit

    Honestly, I don’t care and neither should you. At one of our weekly Impact Music section meetings, we decided to join forces with our lovely friends over at the Comment Section. During our meeting, our Comment editor asked whether we were covering the BRITs. My thought was that we probably should,...
  • An Open Letter to Maroon 5: ‘Cold’ Review, and the Inevitability of Changing Artistry

    Oh, Maroon 5 – it doesn’t usually matter when a band or artist changes – you’ve proved that plenty of times yourselves since your days as Kara’s Flowers – but it does when you move into the blandest, most derivative direction possible, so much so that this ‘change’ is...
  • New Ed, same result: the return of Ed Sheeran

    June will mark 3 years since the release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, X. Being the fastest-selling album of 2014, with rave reviews to match, Sheeran always had a lot to live up to. After a year of social media silence and an underwhelming announcement to the new album,...
  • Live Review: Foy Vance, The Bodega (08/11/2016)

    On another bitterly cold November night, a small crowd of scarves and beanies queue up outside the steps of Bodega, waiting for the warmth of the bar – and of course, the sold out gig headlined by the Irish powerhouse that is Foy Vance and band. “Armed with his...
  • Album Review: Justin Bieber – Purpose

    Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer songwriter. Purpose, his fourth studio LP and first in three years, sees him coming off the back of three tepidly received, but smash hit records. A lot of Bieber’s output is in his marketing; the campaign for even the first single of this record...