Music
Cherwell Introduces: Menu3
Joining me this week, are four members of Menu3: Nicole 2nd year biochemist/lead singer, Jude 2nd year chemist/bass player, Dan music student/drummer, and Marcus 2nd year biologist/keys player!
The Somerville...
American Odyssey- The world building of Lana del Rey’s music
"The past decade of Lana del Rey’s music has ventured from the deserts and neon-lights of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Hollywood, and eventually rural California."
‘Spectacular throughout’: OUO at the Sheldonian- review
"The Sheldonian Theatre was treated on Saturday of 4th week to a display by some of the University’s best musical talent."
Five Songs for the Fifth Week Blues
"I believe that music makes a lot of things in life better. Fifth week at Oxford is no exception."
Forget Her Not: Rediscovering Women in Music- Week 1
At fifteen, I was fully and completely obsessed with the Californian soul/alternative R&B/jazz/funk band...
Music in a foreign language: short-lived novelty or here to stay?
When it comes to most music, you realise quite quickly that the language it’s written in isn’t really that important. Maybe you wouldn’t get...
Hooks and Hardbacks: a summer music reading list
For
the music obsessives among us, the pieces of literature that stick longest in
our minds are overwhelming those which take music itself as a subject....
Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’: an underappreciated album built for times like these
It is a fact of the universe that, in difficult times, people turn to music. It often seems somewhat counterintuitive that in states of...
Review: MIKE’s ‘Weight of the World’
A phenomenal work of abstract hip-hop; WOTW is sure to appear near the top of my year-end list.
Review: The Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’
Fourteen years since their last album, and 17 since they were effectively shut out from the country music industry, The Chicks (formerly known as...
Review: Bladee’s ‘333’
Bladee’s music is either airy transcendence...or the worst thing you’ve ever heard.
Review: Haim’s ‘Women in Music Pt. III’
As with other albums scheduled for 2020, the release date for Women in Music Pt. III experienced an upheaval. Having moved from its original...
Coming down from Eden: the darkening sounds of Sly and the Family Stone
No band – on record or off – better encapsulated the demise of the sixties and that era’s spirit of excited possibility than Sly...
Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’
Usually, Taylor Swift begins a
new album cycle with a blank slate. Instagram is cleared of any record of
previous ‘eras’. Easter eggs are laid out...
The beauty of bedroom pop
The bedroom can feel like an inner sanctum, a personal
hideout away from the public. Therefore, there seems to be a contradiction in
bedroom pop becoming...
A love letter to Oxford’s music scene
In a city of dreaming spires, where casual magic hangs in every cobbled lane at golden hour and each paradisal quad in bloom, I...
Cherwell’s albums of the year so far
Ten albums that we've judged to be among the best of this weird, weird year so far
Review: Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Punisher’
with each song, the world becomes blurrier, as if drunk, only to be immediately sharpened again with the piercing nature of Bridgers’ lyrics
SOPHIE: a sound of change and triumph
Sophie’s music is the sound of triumph in insecurity and acceptance of identity
