Amber Bain: the twenty- four year old prodigy behind ‘The Japanese House’ runs towards her emotions in her dazzling new EP “Chewing Cotton Wool”. The four track record is Bain at her lyrical best. The record is impressively galvanizing: it is emotive, open, and deep and with it Bain proves she is a reliabilty when …
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David Lowery’s “A ghost story” aims to be an eerie, distinct and evocative tale. With loss being Lowery’s cinematic substance, he attempts to create a tragic documentation of death. The film emphasises, rather well, the entrapment of death, as well as death’s malicious effects on it’s loved ones. However, the film lacks the ability to …
Enragement is the gritty subject of Fontaines D.C.’s bitter but brilliant sound. The Dublin born, post-punk band, hold a raw, violent temper with life, and a clear ambivalence for their hometown. This moodiness is manifested through steely sound, and angry, impressive lyrics, that are spoken and shouted throughout the record with honesty and style. The …
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