by Yoana Pavlova Yoana Pavlova is a Bulgarian writer, researcher, and programmer, currently based in Paris. Founding editor of Festivalists.com, with bylines for various outlets in English and French, […]
Women’s Day: Perfect, Imperfect Endings – On Barbara Loden’s ‘Wanda’ (1970)
by Patrick Preziosi Art can be inherently political, but demanding didactic manifestations of intent and closed-circuit endpoints is anything but–– the most piercingly conscious works eschew such politeness […]
Album Review: ‘Circles’ by Mac Miller
When it comes to reevaluating posthumous releases from recently passed rappers these past few years, it’s been best to cede a little more slack than usual to the overall integrity of such projects, given the ever-growing porousness of release guidelines.
Best of the Decade: Music
As with our Best of the Decade in Film list, these album lists should be taken less as definitive statements on what was objectively best, and instead be […]
Best of the Decade: Film
We asked our contributing writers (as well as a couple of future contributors) to offer up lists of films from the last decade which impacted them in a significant way. While we are presenting these as our ‘best of’ lists, the idea was primarily to show several lists covering a variety of moving image works from the multiplex to the avant-garde, some well-loved, others perhaps under-seen.
Album Review: ‘Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 (幽霊リズム)’ by Gong Gong Gong
by Ruairí McCann [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=2418831432 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] There are numerous landmarks set to be struck here on the eve of the 2020s but […]
A Decade In Review: Music of the 2010s
All writing is autobiographical, writing about culture doubly so. There is no way to distill the past decade into 10 essential albums without egregious oversight and omission. There are some artist and albums that I am not equipped to write about, there are also artists that have had their critical moments in the sun. They will not be written about here. That is okay, beautiful even. Remember that the truth is in the telling.
Album Review: Cherry Tree by Good Fuck
A review of the Chicago electronic duo’s sophomore album, their second release this year.
Album Review: Sonic Citadel by Lightning Bolt
The seventh and latest album from noise rock duo Lightning Bolt is the rough next step in two trajectories. One is relatively easy to draw and the other less so.
Doubling Down – DIIV’s ‘Deceiver’ and Danny Brown’s ‘uknowhatimsayin¿’
As musical boundaries continue to dissolve at such an alarming rate, the albatross of being a “buzzed about” artist hangs heavier with each year, even if we’re only going as far back as 2011-12. Looking back from the last quarter of 2019, certain bands and musicians who dominated the cultural conversation seem frivolous now, and others seem retroactively undeserving of the hand-wringing that may have accompanied their ascents.