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Youth Lagoon's second album 'Wondrous Bughouse' is having it's UK release next week (18th March). The first album 'The year of hibernation' did as it said on the title, it was a caccoon for you to crawl into the mind of Trevor Powers, the lone performer/songwriter of Youth Lagoon. It's very much calming thoughts about Powers' times away at Univeristy, mentioning campus a few times, and seemingly growing into himself as a man and performer.
A year on Trevor Powers has burst forth from his caccoon clutching a brand new album and a lighter more upbeat heart. Disorientating synths guide you through his metamorphisis, it's not a far step-away from previous album but a progression non the less.
The songs appear at a faster pace, take standout track 'dropla' for instance, though starting with drip-drop synths like rain on a new morning, he flows through his lyrics at a pace much faster then the sparser first album. On the note of upbeat Powers' seems to want to take the focus away from himself more with the lyrics and turn the light on the listener. Inspiration is provided with repeated words of "you'll never die", perhaps sounding cliche in any other setting then the world cleverly crafted by his various intricate flowing rhythms.

If I was a betting man, and in the unlikely event a bookies were prepared to offer odds on a Varsity event, I'd have my money on Uni to win on Wednesday. Why? Because the University of Nottingham have never failed to win Varsity Swimming since the event's inception. Clearly being the only University in Nottingham to possess a swimming pool has its advantages!

This week's Thursday Sport Show saw the team joined by both the Men's and Women's Hockey teams, as they briefed us on the buildup to their marquee fixture versus Trent in the Varsity Series.

In this week's issue of the Big Picture, Michael Gaffney was joined by David Hayes, Jonnie Jenkin, Joseph Todd, Luc Chignell, Seb Bench and Louis Cotgrove for three debates focused on the issues behind the ongoing SU Election race.

The Big Picture was presented this week by resident left-wing europhile, Louis Cotgrove. The first topic up for discussion was the recent report that China has developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones. The topic discussed the impact that this would have on the world political stage, specifically in regard to Sino-American relations.

The next topic debated was the decision taken by credit ratings agency Moodys to downgrade the UK from Aaa to Aa1 and what effect this would have on the economy of the UK. The panel quickly descended into partisanship, debating whether the government had under-performed in their promises to help the ailing economy

The final issue on tonight's show was the scandal in Germany regarding the decision taken by Annette Schavan, the education minister, to step down after plagiarising her doctorate. Seven other ministers have also been found out to have plagiarised their doctorates and the panel discussed the impact this would have on Merkel's campaign in September to retain the Chancellorship

Tune in next week for our SU election special!