Impact Music

You hear a lot about artists in varying genres truly taking their sound or their area of music to a whole other level. Be it through lyrical meaning, album structure or perhaps just their exceptional execution, artists like Kendrick Lamar (for hip hop) or Ed Sheeran (for pop) are...

Stormzy recently graced the Rock City stage and completely shelled it down.  Stormzy’s rise to fame has been an interesting one, seemingly overnight. It’s easy to overlook the amount of hard work that must have gone into his rise from a star in the hood to a household name and...

Arca is an exceptionally bold third album from Alejandro Ghersi – one of the most batshit crazy producers on the planet. It’s also his first as a vocalist under the Arca moniker. There’s something distinctly brilliant about listening to music in a language that you don’t understand. For example,...

On Tuesday 14th March, The Bodega in Hockley was rammed full of bassheads cutting shapes and throwing limbs to the sounds of bassline and drum and bass at the University of Nottingham Bass Society’s event. After months of planning and promoting, students representing the society took to the stage...

Laura Marling’s sixth album is here – Semper Femina, and it’s easily the album of the year so far. Given that Marling has only fairly recently turned 27, having six albums under the belt is staggering in itself – but there’s no sign of her running out of ideas....

Often, turbulent times can produce the best art. Needless to say, 2016 has been an excellent year for music… Presenting Impact Music’s favourite albums (and mixtapes) of the past twelve months, as voted for by our writers and editors.  15. Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing “Is it cool when I...

After the release of their second album Everything You’ve Come to Expect and the world tour which followed, The Last Shadow Puppets return with The Dream Synopsis EP. Featuring reworked album tracks and covers alike, the EP presumably acts as a parting gift from the band. “Alex Turner’s French...