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.
Kashish Fatima
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?
Does songwriting have to be linguistically poetic to be good?
The joy of ‘hearing’ in a commercial age
The importance of finding beauty in art in the face of its overproduction in a commercial and consumerist age.
A Merciless Life: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack as relatable to university students
Del Toro's 'Frankenstein', Desplat's soundtrack, and lessons to take away from them.
Change as a Catalyst for Art: Metamorphosis and Harry Styles’s ‘As It Was’.
Change, and how it acts as the most effective catalyst for artistic expression through music.
Another Red Heart Taken by the American Dream: Ethel Cain’s ‘American Teenager’, and the dark side of idealised promises.
Cain's exploration of the American Dream, and nostalgia for what can never be.
Shellshock! Is behind you! – Review
Shellshock’s festive improv show is perfect for enjoyers of jovial, and slightly bewildering, Christmas jokes!