The Glitterbeat Guide to Globalisation
Hamburg-based record label Glitterbeat provides a beacon of hope, not only for music lovers tired of hearing endless iterations of the tried-and-true, but for anyone who believes unapologetic cosmopolitanism is our only gateway to a brighter future.(...)
Salvador Puig Antich: Collected Writings on Repression and Resistance in Franco’s Spain
A concrete platform occupies a bend in the road in the El Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. It overlooks a dusty playground and a climbing wall, and then beyond the broad sweep of the city and the azure sea.(...)
Mush’s Lines Redacted
It’s not easy for popular music to surprise these days. And it’s even harder for it to pull off that feat without becoming perverse or pretentious in the process.(...)
Al Zlogar’s America on Fire
America on Fire captures a time that simultaneously feels like a distant past and an endless present.(...)
The Buzzcocks’ Complete UA Singles 1977-1980
Next to the Sex Pistols and the Clash, the Buzzcocks were probably the most important British punk band. And, although they never attained the international notoriety of those other groups, they were in many ways the most influential of all.(...)
Illuminine’s Baptism of Solitude
Baptism of Solitude, the sumptuous new album by Illuminine, came at the perfect time for me.(...)
Tenia’s Altrove
These days, even avant-garde musicians are angling for the patronage of television and videogame franchises, not to mention TikTok stars.(...)
Pinkcourtesyphone and Coronavirus Politics
Dark ambient music is an unlikely vehicle for contemporary social criticism.(...)
Lamin Fofana’s Diasporic Ambient
If one of the tracks made by Berlin-based DJ and producer Lamin Fofana came up while you were listening to a playlist, you might well take it for arty electronica, deeply compelling on its own terms.(...)
Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The threat posed by climate change is among the most common of concerns repeated these days. All too often it’s expressed by the sort of person who is as unlikely to do anything.(...)