Album Review: Jeremih – Late Nights: Europe
After Jeremih’s 2015 Late Nights: The album success, he is back to replicate that. LATE NIGHTS: EUROPE was released as a surprise back in July and on all commercial streaming platforms on the 24th of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: M.I.A. – AIM
The fact that M.I.A. was replaced as a headlining act in this year’s inaugural AFROPUNK Festival in London was but one of the many controversies surrounding the highly anticipated release of her fifth...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Solange – A Seat at the Table
Solange has just dropped her third studio album ‘A Seat at the table’ on September 30th in perfect timing for Black History month. This album fearlessly addresses issues of race, culture, the black...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Norah Jones – Day Breaks
Singer songwriter Norah Jones is back with a bang. After a 4-year wait, the 9 time Grammy award winning artist returns with her sixth studio album Day Breaks which I assure you is well worth a listen....
View ArticleAlbum Review: Green Day – Revolution Radio
They are back! Green Day’s first studio release since the arguably over-reaching ¡Uno, Dos, Trés! Trilogy, Revolution Radio was unexpectedly announced alongside the release of premier single ‘Bang...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Bon Iver – 22, A Million
Without turning this album review into a state-of-the-nation treatise, it feels fitting that 2016, a pretty discombobulating year by anybody’s standards, is one of a similar aesthetic overhaul in the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
Poet/rapper Kate Tempest’s fantastic debut album, Everybody Down, was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2014. Miraculously, Let Them Eat Chaos is even better. It puts our lives into perspective,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kings of Leon – WALLS
After three years without releasing an album, Kings of Leon are finally back. They sound fresh for the current chart music scene, but are still working with the same old formula. They’ve brought back...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Soft Hair – Soft Hair
To begin with, attention must be paid to Soft Hair’s glorious album artwork. I’m still not quite sure how to articulate the mixture of repulsion and attraction that I experience whilst gazing upon this...
View ArticleIf The Beatles Had One More Album In Them
Since their break-up in 1970, the individual members of the Beatles have had mixed solo success. Ultimately, they’ve been disappointing. In the ’60s, they combined to reach UK Number One 17 times, yet...
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Review: Frank Ocean – Blonde / Endless / Boys Don’t Cry
The long-awaited second studio album from the legendary Frank Ocean is here at last. It’s been four years since his first masterpiece, but the artist makes up for it with a seventeen-track album –...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Wretch 32 – Growing Over Life
Wretch 32’s title for his third album is fitting, to say the least. As opposed to his previous album Black and White, Wretch 32 seems more confident in himself as an artist and the fact that he is able...
View ArticleReview: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree / One More Time With Feeling
This album is bad for your health. I know that because it’s all I’ve listened to since it was released last Friday and I’ve been nothing but melancholy since. There are a few precedents for material...
View ArticleAlbum Watch: Bruno Mars, The Weeknd and more
A lot of music comes out weekly, so over here at Impact we have given everything a listen so you don’t have to. Here are our top picks out of some of the recently released albums.Bruno Mars – 24K...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Listening To (Album Watch, 05/12/16)
The deadlines are piling up but don’t worry, I’m still here to give you the albums worth listening to this week so you don’t have to sift through them. Without further ado, here are the projects I’ve...
View ArticleHip Hop Hip Hop Hip Hop, It’s bigger than… Album Watch (12/12/16)
Friday was a brilliant day if you love hip hop, we had turn up albums, we had conscious albums, we had insightful albums, we have nonsense albums, we had underrated albums, we had very overrated ones,...
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Albums of the Year: 2016
Often, turbulent times can produce the best art. Needless to say, 2016 has been an excellent year for music… Presenting Impact Music’s favourite albums (and mixtapes) of the past twelve months, as...
View Article“Excess at its most excessive”: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, 40 Years On
This weekend (the 4th February, to be exact) marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Fleetwood Mac’s bestselling album, Rumours. The Grammy Award-winning album was released in 1977, and marked a...
View ArticleThe month in albums: January 2017
Exams have rendered us out of action for a good month or so, but that time has now (finally) come to an end (until May). Wonder no more, Impact Music are back with a bang! To kick things off, here’s...
View Article“Easily the Album of the Year so far!” Album Review: Laura Marling – Semper...
Laura Marling’s sixth album is here – Semper Femina, and it’s easily the album of the year so far.Given that Marling has only fairly recently turned 27, having six albums under the belt is staggering...
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