3 Songs that Got Us Through the Year
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
Category: Music
Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero. Continue reading Compilation: Dogme 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 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
Dogme Year Zero: Topographies of Adolescence
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
2020 in Music
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
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. Continue reading Forever the Geography: National Mutability in ‘Krabi, 2562’ (2019) + Nazar’s ‘Guerrilla’ (2020)
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. Continue reading Committed Distancing: On Car Seat Headrest’s ‘Making a Door Less Open’ and Drake’s ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’
“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… Continue reading “Lil Uzi Vert, to Be Exact”: On Eternal Atake/Lil Uzi Vs. The World 2
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) Continue reading Album Review: ‘Mystic Familiar’ by Dan Deacon
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. Continue reading Women’s Day: “Mom, I failed, I’m coming home” – On music, loneliness, immigration, and Mitski
