“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.”
Listening After 5 Years
Around the end of 2015, Alex Tripp had the idea to start keeping track of the music he’d heard.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.