• ALBUM REVIEW: Shaun Martin – ‘7Summers’

    The culmination of seven years hard work and composition, Shaun Martin’s solo debut, aptly named 7Summers, is a fantastic jazz album. The amount of time and craft that has been put into the album is evident upon the track’s first listen, and the first track, ‘Introduction’, explains how much of a challenge...
  • “Oh Kanye”: Is A Rapper Really The World’s Biggest Rock Star?

    In a performance that was divisive to say the least, Kanye West’s Glastonbury headliner featured as many controversial moments as one might expect from the man who twice stormed the Grammy stage and got called a ‘jackass’ by the President of the United States. But we might finally have...
  • ALBUM REVIEW: A$AP ROCKY – ‘At.Long.Last.A$AP ’

    The sequel to Long.Live.A$AP has arrived at long last, and it tells a story. The anticipation for new A$AP Rocky material has been rising exponentially for two years now, and with the rapper’s erratic and unpredictable personality, even Nostradamus would have had trouble guessing what we would see next. But...
  • Festival Preview: Green Man Festival

    It seems that not a year goes by when Green Man Festival attracts a superb line up, and this year is no different. Impact Music takes a look at some of the acts worth checking out at this year’s festival. Father John Misty Whether you think Josh Tillman’s Father...
  • Scrapbook – Impactful Films

    Our writers recount some impactful film releases in our latest Scrapbook, ranging from the personally profound, poignant provocateurs, or even features that have presented and maintained a purporting legacy. A Clockwork Orange (1971) The films that stick with us aren’t always those we enjoy. This is the case with...
  • TV Review – Louie, Season 5

    In 2014 Louie went from a show which cared not a jot about structure or storytelling to delivering what were essentially three sprawling TV movies – ‘The Elevator’, ‘Into The Woods’ and ‘Pamela’ – which were existential, dense and often rather sombre tales. It’s easy sometimes to forget that Louie is...
  • Movie Musings… Dogme 95

    The rise of the blockbuster and its high-impact style of storytelling came to a natural conclusion in 1995, when four young Danish directors founded the Dogme 95 Collective. The most prominent of these was the highly controversial part-provocateur, part-pornographer Lars von Trier. The group operated within the confines of...