Matteo Everett Contributor

Generic poorly-produced pop follows Coldplay’s most exciting album in a decade.

By turns an autobiography, travelogue and meditation on language, Polly Barton’s Fifty Sounds is an eclectic study on what it means to teach – and learn – a language, as told through fifty mimetic sounds.

A modern, genre-bending elegy, Passerine is an ambitious and accomplished poetic study of loss and hope. 

With several tender and melodic folk songs already on Spotify, Maria Shepard – ‘a London-based law student by day and singer-songwriter by night’ – deserves a bigger audience. 

After producing a string of middling records, You Me At Six are back on top form with SUCKAPUNCH, their best album yet.

There are few video games as loved as the Mario franchise, but even everyone’s favourite plumber has stumbled up a couple of times. Still, the latest 2D Mario title might just be his best ‘classic’ adventure yet.

Yungblud’s sophomore record Weird! is a crude and unambitious attempt to ride on the coattails of other artists’ success without offering a shred of originality. 

After days of waiting the 2020 American election winner was finally announced, but its results were immediately undermined by outgoing POTUS Donald Trump. Based on false accusations, Trump’s accusations revealed holes within American democracy

Shudder-exclusive British found footage horror film Host (2020) isn't just the best example of its genre or the first significant Coronavirus movie, but an expert exploration of the terrors of death and a subtle reinvention of the ghost story.