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…
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*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…
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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…
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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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The Panoptic is due to launch in two parts: the Arts section will launch first during April 2016; and the rest of the publication will follow at the beginning of Summer.
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