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Arctic Monkeys Ruined Me For Every Other Album This Year
If you culled together the critical reviews for Arctic Monkeys’ two previous albums—Humbug (2009) and Suck It and See (2011)—the common observation would be that the band was “maturing.” I’ve always thought that was a backhanded compliment because for a plucky British band like this, that seems to mean they were losing the raw (juvenile) […]
The Return of Jonathan Glazer: Under the Skin
Since 2000, cinema has had a gift in Jonathan Glazer. Music video director extraordinaire for bands such as UNKLE, Radiohead, Massive Attack, and Blur, he hit the scene running with Sexy Beast and rewrote the rule book with his astounding Birth. But that was a long time ago, and while he’s kept to the grind with music […]
For Neko Case, Things Get Worse
As you may have gathered from my piece about Harold & Maude, there is a handful of art that connects me to a particular girl—specifically, to a shitty breakup. Neko Case’s previous album, Middle Cyclone, is another. The album was brash and empowered, wild, a nearly literal force of nature. High emotion is probably how […]
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