Epidemic Psychedelia
AKSU, Il Santo Bevitore, and The Seer, Self-Titled
The eponymous LP by experimental artists AKSU, Il Santo Bevitore, and The Seer testifies to the power of collaboration.(...)
AKSU, Il Santo Bevitore, and The Seer, Self-Titled
The eponymous LP by experimental artists AKSU, Il Santo Bevitore, and The Seer testifies to the power of collaboration.(...)
Catalogue’s Modern Delusion
Marseille trio Catalogue’s new album Modern Delusion demonstrates why we need music criticism more than ever.(...)
A Brief Moment in the Sun, by Soulside
That the first song on Soulside's new LP ends with a sample from a 1952 American civil defence film Duck and Cover, about a nuclear apocalypse, says it all.(...)
Aftershocks, by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has buried hopes the world might be ending its morbid embrace of COVID-19.(...)
The Coronavirus Shakes
They asked what the purpose of our visit was. “We’re fleeing Germany,” I said, as I handed over our Israeli and American passports. “My wife and I want to apply for asylum.”(...)
Sonic Hauntology: Subterranean Internationale, by Raz Mesinai
Sonic Hauntology, Raz Mesinai's new album of field recordings for The Battleground, pushes that peculiar genre in exciting new directions. (...)
Gut and Fratti’s Let’s Talk About the Weather
While the pandemic continues to inflict horrific suffering on the world, its early phase is now capable of inspiring nostalgia. We remember the excitement of watching everyday routines grind to a halt and then having to figure out what to do in their absence.(...)
Pandemic Rebels and Fascist Longings
Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, opposition to anti-contagion efforts has been led by a small number of fringe groups and quasi-movements linked together by social media.(...)
COVID-19 and Digital Freedoms in Eastern Europe
The Mike Davis Reader
Last week, I wrote at length about Set the Night on Fire, the definitive history of radical Los Angeles in the 1960s, co-written by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. This might be the apotheosis of Davis’s career as a historian of the city.(...)