Editor’s note: Change is scary until it offers you beauty (and it almost always will)

Editor-in-chief Kashish Fatima reflects on change and welcomes freshers to Durham.

Shellshock!’s ‘Crystal Unclear: An Improvised Séance’ – Review

Kashish Fatima reviews Shellshock’s Fringe Tour preview.

From page to air: how does perceiving the Lyric as a poetic form change our experience of music listening?

The joy of ‘hearing’ in a commercial age

A Merciless Life: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack as relatable to university students

Change as a Catalyst for Art: Metamorphosis and Harry Styles’s ‘As It Was’.

Another Red Heart Taken by the American Dream: Ethel Cain’s ‘American Teenager’, and the dark side of idealised promises.

Shellshock! Is behind you! – Review