Flip to the other side of the Atlantic and this young man is certainly making waves for himself on the ever-rising Grime scene. Octavian mixes up his style consistently between rapping, spoken word and melodic singing in a smooth and free-flowing manner that draws you in and gets your attention. At times his harmonies sounds…
However it makes you feel, the start of 2018 looks set to continue the 2017 trend of heavily auto-tuned, poorly enunciated ‘mumble rap’. After making a name for themselves online through various different social media platforms and audio outputs like Soundcloud this duo deliver decently catchy, snare heavy beats laced with endless repetition and a…
As the first song to be released from the upcoming Black Panther Marvel movie, you may not expect too much from this one but it’s surprisingly catchy and the collaboration between Lamar and SZA certainly has its charms. Starting off with a distorted hook (which sounds like a sample I know but can’t quite place)…
In an age when certain world leaders claim to be ready to bring nuclear annihilation at a moment’s notice, a book like this deserves our attention more than ever. McCarthy’s bleak and harsh story of a man and his son making their way across a devastated America is a stark warning of what could happen…
Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in with everyone else? Maybe you’ve found yourself wondering what it truly means to be normal in this crazy world? For young August, the protagonist of this charming novel, the idea of trying to fit in is something that feels a million miles away from the realms…
I’m the type of person who wants to read the book before I see the film or watch the TV adaptation, but this sometimes means that I fall behind on what everyone else is interested in at any given time. American Gods was released online last year and the trailers for the series did…
Making a film about a terribly-made film doesn’t sound like a particularly good idea on paper, but there is something weirdly charming about the film that inspired this semi-mockumentary-biopic. If you have never seen The Room (not to be confused with Room which is entirely different) then you are unlikely to truly appreciate the effort…
In spite of the unsurprising backlash from the die-hard fans around the internet, this latest instalment in the ever-growing (and unlikely to ever stop) saga is exactly what people should have expected after the previous backlash aimed at The Force Awakens. Without giving too much away, the bad guys are pretty angry at the…
Updating a film that was so successful in its hey-day is never an easy task to undertake, so the decision to revise the ideology behind Jumanji and put it into a videogame comes across as a necessary turn (would kids these days even play traditional board games? Or would they just get bored?). The main…
It’s clear that the economic benefits were a major factor in the state’s change of heart about medical marijuana.