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Release Date – 6th May 2016 There has long been rumour of a curse that accompanies winning the Mercury Prize. Despite a cash prize of £20,000 and unprecedented album sales spikes following a win, recipients of the award can fade into obscurity or deliver a less than impressive follow up to their award winning album.…
Read More *SPOILERS* This week’s Game of Thrones review comes courtesy of Scott Reynolds, who is very much clued in on the show. Worry not, there’s nothing regarding the books, but it is certainly filled with spoilers for the show. If this week’s episode had to be described in as few words as possible, I would quote Ser Davos and…
Read More *SPOILERS* This week saw a strong episode featuring two (fairly) major deaths, and two Stark(ish) returns – sound good? The episode begins with the return of Bran Stark after his season-long hiatus, who, now with the Three-eyed Raven, is shown Winterfell from when his father, Ned, was a boy. In the vision, we are shown…
Read More Release Date – 6th April 2016 It’s been a long time since Animal Collective’s Deakin (Josh Dibb) opened up a Kickstarter project to raise funds for a solo album in 2009. Finally, the 7 year long ordeal is over and despite the wait and unrealistically high expectations, the project somehow has its happy ending. There has…
Read More *SPOILERS* Here begins The Panoptic’s first episodic review of a TV series. Each week you’ll find a review of the just-aired episode of Game of Thrones, spoilers aplenty (so make sure you’ve seen it!) There’s no guarantee as to who will be writing each week, but our wonderfully talented collection of writers will make sure…
Read More International Tour Ends 19th August 2016 Muse will always be my favourite band. Despite having made, in my opinion, their last truly great album a decade ago in 2006, Black Holes and Revelations, the band are one of the few of the mid-00s British guitar band boom to have since sustained an enormously successful career. Only…
Read More Release Date – 8th April 2016 It’s difficult to recall another band in the metal scene that oozes class in the same way that Deftones does. Since the Sacramento outfit’s debut album Adrenaline in 1995, they have consistently transformed their youthful angst into controlled heaviness juxtaposed by soaring beauty. The ironically-titled Gore successfully builds on…
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