Matteo Everett

Two years after the promised Turbo Grafx 16 was struck from record and several Twitter rants of varying comprehensibility later, Kanye West’s eighth studio record has finally landed in the stream-o-sphere. While Ye does nothing to reinvent the wheel, it seeks to reaffirm “this generation’s closest thing to Einstein”’s...

For many, ranking Arctic Monkeys records is almost like choosing a favourite child. Arguably the closest thing this generation has to the Beatles, the band have constantly renewed their sound with every record, while maintaining a massive global fanbase essentially from the get-go. With their sixth album, the sure-to-be-divisive...

Chances are you haven’t noticed, but poetry has experienced something of a revival recently. Love her or loathe her, Rupi Kaur’s collections have been flying off shelves, with no intention of stopping, faster than you can say ‘Instagram poetry is shit’. Claudia Rankine’s brilliant and experimental Citizen: An American...

It is a poorly-kept secret that the juxtaposition of the comic and the tragic elevates both ends of this duality to greater heights than they can achieve within themselves, yet the near-perfection of Jordan Peele’s Get Out still came as a surprise to many who couldn’t comprehend that a...

Four weeks of stressful strikes might prompt some naysayers to joke that the issue has afforded students more lie-in time, but the university strikes are no laughing matter. I must preface this article by saying the views expressed herein are by no means a condemnation of striking staff or...

Vinyl lovers, maybe it’s time to come to terms with the demise of ‘traditional ways’ to listen to music. With an increasing number of mainstream artists shirking from conventional long-plays, we may just be on the brink of the death of the record. Black Eyed Peas’ comeback single ‘Street...

Described as a “politically charged nod to 1920s Kaberett”, focus on this form ends up undermining the political messages of No Woman’s Land, and while the play (or more accurately, performance piece) retains a fingerfull of redeeming features, it is by and large an incoherent mess. In 2015, Zoo...