As the title suggests, this list collects our contributors’ 3 songs that got them through this hell-year.
Dogme Year Zero: Topographies of Adolescence
In early October, an email reached me. ‘Comrades of the Kino’, the first line addressed its recipients.
Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero.
Dogme Year Zero: Microphones in 2020
by Ruairí McCann Knowing no one understands these songs,I try to sing them clearer.Even though no one has ever asked:”What does Mount Eerie mean?”I have tried to repeatedly […]
2020 in Music
Between the week-long disassociating spells and doom scrolling through the slow moving apocalypse, these albums acted as an anchor.
Forever the Geography: National Mutability in ‘Krabi, 2562’ (2019) + Nazar’s ‘Guerrilla’ (2020)
Looking over what I have seen and heard in this mess of a release year so far, I realized that two of my favourite works of art – one a movie, another an album – are tied together by their decision to depict a particular place, or identity, with an intentional formal wooliness.
Committed Distancing: On Car Seat Headrest’s ‘Making a Door Less Open’ and Drake’s ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’
Bitching about fame is commonplace in popular music, and bitching about a musician’s bitching is just as recurrent a talking point as well.
“Lil Uzi Vert, to Be Exact”: On Eternal Atake/Lil Uzi Vs. The World 2
If anyone were to ask you for either a time capsule of rap music in 2016, or an embryonic example of the seedlings of what’s become one of hip-hop’s equally richest and bewildering creative eras yet, you’d simply have to present them the 2016 XXL Freshman Cypher…
Album Review: ‘Mystic Familiar’ by Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon – in his lyrics, interviews and in the goofball soapbox aspect of his live performances – is loose-tongued and lucid about the headspace which produced his fifth and newest album, Mystic Familiar (2020)
Women’s Day: “Mom, I failed, I’m coming home” – On music, loneliness, immigration, and Mitski
Žarko Urošević walks us through the perfect encapsulations of struggle, fear, failings, and humanity that make up the music of Mitski.