Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 15 April 2022. On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner – a.k.a. Flock of Dimes – follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience…
Multiverses are all the rage right now. From Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse to the upcoming Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, it seems like you can’t turn around without another multi-dimensional movie smacking you in the face. But Everything Everywhere All At Once is different. Yes, it’s another multiverse, but one the good folks…
Javier Bardem seems like Spain’s equivalent of Hugh Jackman. Despite being an international superstar, he still finds time to appear in productions from his homeland. So after his recent appearance in the sci-fi epic Dune, it shouldn’t come as a great surprise that his next appearance is in a small Spanish film set in a…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 8 April 2022. Written mostly with longtime co-conspirator klipschutz, The Land That Time Forgot steps out of Chuck Prophet’s comfort zone (“two guitars, bass, and drums”). The album got off the ground in the Money Belt, only to find…
Going to a movie is an important choice. So as many people do with important choices, let’s get into a pros-and-cons analysis of Michael Bay’s new movie, Ambulance. Pro: It looks great! Kudos to DOP Roberto De Angelis. Con: The plot is so simple, it could have been written in crayon. Pro: Jake Gyllenhaal. I…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 1 April 2022. Seabear return with a new album. After a hiatus of 12 years – the band’s most “recent” LP dates back to 2010 – the much loved Icelandic collective presents In Another Life, a mesmerizing collection of…
Art and crime have always been strange but frequent bedfellows. From the often-illegal activities of Caravaggio to the sensational art heists of the 20th Century, public fascination with both never seems to wane. And while art crime can be deadly serious, director Roger Michell gives it a comic twist in The Duke. Michell’s films tend…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 March 2022. African Pianism is a revelatory collection of music by seven African composers. Released to coincide with Black History Month in the United States, it marks SOMM Recordings solo debut of Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia. First recordings…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 18 March 2022. April March has quite the resume: an animator on Pee Wee’s Playhouse and for Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl” video, and collaborating with Brian Wilson, Jack White, LL Cool J, Jonathan Richman, Ronnie Spector and Bertrand Burgalat….
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 11 March 2022. Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval has released her new album Classic Objects on 4AD Records. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play…
