Author: Reece Beckett

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    “Just keep going” – An Interview with Pete & Bas

    Reece Beckett catches up with the legendary Pete & Bas.

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    Best Break-up Books – Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin)

    Reece Beckett discusses his favourite break-up book, Giovanni’s Room.

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    Review: Jackass Forever

    The boys are back for the fourth time- but does their humour still work? Reece Beckett believes so.

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    Review: Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, Alicia Keys – City of Gods

    With Donda 2 having an established release date at the end of this month (whether it will actually drop or not remains to be seen), and Kanye West currently being on another of his infamous public streaks – endless Instagram posts causing controversy, a ridiculous amount of features in a tiny amount of time (on this track, […]

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    The Best Breakup Album of All Time: Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak

    Trigger Warning: Mention of suicide Hip-hop in the early to mid-2000s was… interesting. With few exceptions, hip-hop fans were becoming increasingly sceptical of the genre’s ability to last into the 21st century, as the gritty nature of 90s hip-hop was left behind by the untimely deaths of many top stars and the genre tried to […]

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    Generation-defining Rock: A Review of Black Country, New Road’s Ants From Up There

    Reece Beckett praises the “seriously good” second album from Black Country, New Road.

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    Review: Kae Tempest – More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract)

    Reece Beckett reviews the latest track from the multi-talented Kae Tempest.

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    Review: Nas – Magic

    Having earned himself more critical acclaim than any of his other records for the last decade or so, Nas has been climbing back into the higher ranks of contemporary hip-hop with his recent releases like King’s Disease I and II, reminding fans how good of a boom-bap gangsta rapper he can be. With drill and more abstract […]

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    Review: Belfast

    Reece Beckett was not impressed with the audience favourite Belfast…

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    Hidden Gems: Skagafjordur

    Thankfully, after years of being one of the most harshly overlooked directors of all time, Kelly Reichardt’s dedication at the end of her recent feature First Cow to Peter B. Hutton brought some attention to his work. Hutton’s passing in 2016 was a shake to the very foundations of modern experimental cinema (particularly in America) […]

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    Review: The Game, Kanye West – ‘EAZY’

    This mysterious new track from The Game and Kanye West is strong and moody.

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    Embracing (some) Mainstream Appeal: A Review of Earl Sweatshirt’s SICK!

    Reece Beckett reviews the hotly anticipated album from Earl Sweatshirt.

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    On Edge: Anticipating Earl Sweatshirt’s Sick!

    Reece Beckett awaits the next album from modern hip-hop’s most popular poet.

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    Review: The Matrix Resurrections – Visually Fantastic but Far From Perfect

    2021 seems to have been a year of skepticism towards blockbusters: there was the Spielberg remake of West Side Story, at first a controversial decision that saw film fans divided until the film released to surprisingly intense acclaim; there was Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film so abundantly hyped up that disappointment seemed almost inevitable… […]