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Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box

Featuring a completely fresh set of everyday, human characters, as well as a genre not generally as popular with mainstream audiences, the first title in Nintendo’s new franchise, _Professor Layton and the Curious Village_, quickly and unexpectedly became a huge commercial and critical success soon following its release. It should...
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By , Feb. 24, 2010

Black Sands

The biggest problem facing me when writing this article was how exactly do you classify Bonobo’s new album? While too repetitive and beat based for jazz or funk, it seems an insult to class it as “dance”, as that doesn’t reflect the creativity or individuality of the music. My faithful...
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By , Feb. 23, 2010

The Weekend: Friday

I have to admit that Forever the Sickest Kids are a guilty pleasure of mine; not exactly clever or original, but hey, they can write one hell of a tune However, “The Weekend: Friday” has managed to lose everything that made debut album, “Underdog Alma Mater”, enjoyable, and replaced it...
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By , Feb. 23, 2010