Liam Inscoe-Jones

It’s only been two years since Turner’s last release – the downbeat, heartbreak-scarred Tape Deck Heart – yet the change between it and Positive Songs for Negative People could not be more palpable. If the former is a sub-zero December day then the latter is the sweltering crescendo of...

If you’re looking for an album with more flange guitar, simplistic drum beats and dreamy vocals, then here is another one to add to the list of Mac DeMarco’s masterpieces. The Canadian musician releases Another One, a mini-album with 8 short tracks, all recorded in his apartment. The songs...

Israel is a hot bed for controversy. We are told what happens between it and Palestine is so deeply cultural that the west could never understand it, let alone help to rectify it. It’s becoming clearer though, thanks in part to a sharper historical perspective and in part to...

Long gone are the days when a new Netflix show was an event. The bold new network drops something every other week now, and the misses amongst the hits matter much less. Bojack Horseman is absolutely the latter; a cartoon about a talking horse which manages to be both...

In 2014 Sun Kil Moon found their oeuvre with a record many instantly deemed classic: Benji, in which frontman Mark Kozelek put up front a lifetime of experience and poignant stories of those lost in his life, with a density of language that bordered on spoken word, and a frankness rarely seen in any...

Its 2015, and hip-hop is having something of a personality crisis. Rappers like Czarface and Kendrick Lamar are dropping classics made from the vintage hip-hop facets of lyricism and hard, soulful beats. Rappers like Drake, Young Thug and Future meanwhile are making it big despite having neither of these...

It’s a bizarre day when one finds himself in agreement with The Sun newspaper.  They have just released a front page that depicts a still-frame of dubiously obtained footage from Balmoral in 1933. It depicts the Queen Mother and her brother-in-law, Prince Edward, corralling the six year old Queen Elizabeth and...