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Album Review: Ariana Grande – Positions

John WohlmacherNovember 2, 2020

What's fascinating about Ariana Grande is her overt quest for power. “thank u, next” is, at its core, a motto for consumerist rebranding of the human flesh: on...

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Album Review: Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King

John WohlmacherOctober 28, 2020

One of the most interesting realisations of 2020 was that we’ve now seen more “quarantine albums” full of introspection than we’ve had albums reflecting on the...

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Album Review: clipping. – Visions Of Bodies Being Burned

John WohlmacherOctober 26, 2020

What’s your favourite horror film sequel? There’s quite a lot that come to mind, and depending on what your socialization with the genre’s been and which ge...

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Remain in Light at 40: A Celebration of Talking Heads’ landmark album

Rob Hakimian, Carlo Thomas, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher and Michael CyrsOctober 8, 2020

Today marks 40 years since October 8, 1980, the release date of Talking Heads' era-defining fourth album Remain in Light. It's hard to believe that an album th...

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Album Review: Thurston Moore – By The Fire

John WohlmacherOctober 5, 2020

It’s that familiar image of the old writer, in the autumn of his years, standing by an open window, smoking, before he sits down by the typewriter to start ano...

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Album Review: Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia

John WohlmacherSeptember 28, 2020

So much of the lore surrounding Philadelphia is centred on the aesthetics of Japanese New Age music, that it’s almost a shock that the album following the gorg...

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Second Look: The Divine Comedy – Regeneration

John WohlmacherSeptember 16, 2020

The idea of time capsules is one always prevalent in music. An album can bring about images, smells, feelings long thought lost. Our memories, filtered through...

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Second Look: This Heat – Deceit

John WohlmacherAugust 29, 2020

No screams disturbed the silence. A few survivors shuffled through the debris, quietly begging for water. People, houses, factories – reduced to ash. Those who...

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Interview: Protomartyr

John WohlmacherAugust 28, 2020

Police violence, foreign diseases, faceless corporate illusionists, political unrest. Madness, narcissism, death! You’d be forgiven for thinking the themes...

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Album Review: Secret Machines – Awake in the Brain Chamber

John WohlmacherAugust 24, 2020

Now here’s something nobody saw coming in 2020: a new album by New York indie scene alumni Secret Machines – their first in 12 years. But really, you’d be forg...

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