Authors: Kathy Rong Zhou
Review: Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl Sacred Bones Street: 06.09 Jenny Hval = Laurie Anderson + Kate Bush + FKA Twigs Apocalypse, girl is intimate, redolent of how an experimental documentary art film might translate to sound. Jenny Hval pervades her reality with musings about her state of being in the world—how she wants to live and
Review: Joanna Newsom – Divers
Joanna Newsom = Dirty Projectors + Björk + Kate Bush … read more
Review: Gel Set – Human Salad
Gel Set = Chris & Cosey x Throbbing Gristle + Chromatics … read more
Review: Death Index – Self-titled
Frontman Carson Cox of Merchandise and Marco Rapisarda (from labels Hell, Yes! and No Good) have teamed up to deal out their latest noise-soaked, hardcore-meets-art punk side project: Death Index. Their heady, self-titled debut album is punishing yet majestic, with a mission firmly rooted in those “primordial days of art punk”—think another punk duo, Suicide, and their nervy tendencies—that traverses doom, goth and post-punk in its hardcore endeavor. … read more
Review: Coromandelles – Late Bloomer’s Bloomers
Coromandelles = Cold Showers x Melody’s Echo Chamber x Kurt Vile … read more
Review: Broken Water – Wrought
Broken Water = Milk Music + Unwound … read more
Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry
Beach House = (Spiritualized + Galaxie 500) x Exitmusic … read more
Review: Bambara – Swarm
Bambara = Iceage + Swans + The Birthday Party … read more
Film Review: The Farewell
The Farewell is embedded in a melancholic push-pull of mourning, nostalgia and outsiderness, but of course, it’s readily and incisively funny, too. … read more
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano)
Birds of Passage unfurls its tale of one indigenous Wayúu family within the expansive Guajira Desert and the early Colombian drug war. … read more