It’s important to remember that The Weeknd and House of Balloons were first. Continue reading “But I’m a Nice Dude, With Some Nice Dreams” – The Weeknd’s ‘House of Balloons’ Turns 10
“Whether through imperfection, glitches, or plurality, club culture did not die in 2020. No hierarchy intended, with this list I want to highlight some of the most powerful live/online performances.” Continue reading On Physicality and Proximity or How “Live/Online” Shows Set the Screen for a New Club Culture
Around the end of 2015, Alex Tripp had the idea to start keeping track of the music he’d heard. Continue reading Listening After 5 Years
Max and Ruairí detail their personal histories with Deerhoof. Continue reading Correspondence: Deerhoof
As the title suggests, this list collects our contributors’ 3 songs that got them through this hell-year. Continue reading 3 Songs that Got Us Through the Year
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero. Continue reading Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
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 explainIn complicated songs.But tonight, we will find out.I know no one.And no one knows me. Those are the opening lyrics of “No Flashlight”: Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005). The first album Phil Elverum released as ‘Mount … Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: Microphones in 2020
In early October, an email reached me. ‘Comrades of the Kino’, the first line addressed its recipients. Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: Topographies of Adolescence
Between the week-long disassociating spells and doom scrolling through the slow moving apocalypse, these albums acted as an anchor. Continue reading 2020 in Music
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. Continue reading Forever the Geography: National Mutability in ‘Krabi, 2562’ (2019) + Nazar’s ‘Guerrilla’ (2020)
