Caroline Shaw is a composer whose approach redefines the term “multifaceted”. The North Carolina native received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her Partita for 8 Voices (the youngest recipient of that Pulitzer category, at age 30). She… Read More
Over the last couple of years, Light in the Attic – a reissue label responsible for lavishly reviving the catalogs of artists as disparate as Lee Hazelwood, the Last Poets, Sixto Rodriguez, and Nancy Sinatra – have been shining a… Read More
In this significant collection of essays and illustrations, curator Milena Høgsberg marvels at the reception to Hilma af Klint’s work at the 2020 exhibition at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden. The question of af Klint’s growing popularity is at the heart… Read More
As the hoary saying goes, old folkies never die, they just keep on playing the same song over and over again. At 67 years old, Rod Abernethy’s been around, and he’s lived long enough to remember the folk revival scare… Read More
In Relic (2020), Kay (Emily Mortimer) accompanied by her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote), rushes to the family’s decaying country home after her mother, Edna (Robyn Nevin), who suffers from Alzheimer’s, disappears. When Edna returns, her volatile behaviour leads her daughter… Read More
1. Alfred Schnittke – “Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled with Grief” arr. the Kronos Quartet (1997) Alfred Schnittke’s most famous piece is probably known to most through a version not quite his own. Originally composed for chorus from… Read More
“People tend to think,” narrates Dorothy Daniels, who we learn early on is in prison for murder and more, “that the most natural stories begin at their beginning and unwind through their middle to their completion, and sometimes they do.… Read More
As 2020 drew to a close, Craft Recordings’ yearlong Between the Buried and Me remaster and vinyl reissue project arrived at 2007’s Colors, their fourth and most significant album. This was the record that brought the band more attention outside… Read More
1. “She Takes Me” “Folding corners into perfect shapes / Went forlorn in a vapor of Elysian escapes” That’s how these lines to “She Takes Me” read in the liner notes of lowercase’s Kill the Lights, at least. Coming out of… Read More
“If you are working with a radioactive substance, don’t let it escape…it may come back to you.” — National Educational Television video on plutonium (1963) Much like forthcoming generations will find it difficult to imagine a pre-Covid-19 world, most of… Read More