With the recent success of A Million Drops (2018), English readers are learning that Spanish author Víctor Del Árbol is one of the most captivating crime-thriller voices in current literature. Such is the case with Del Árbol’s third novel, Breathing… Read More
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree. — Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down In the Hugo-nominated sixth episode of Damon Lindelof’s… Read More
The general vibe of duo Buscabulla is a chic one, lead singer Raquel Berríos’ voice airy over partner and multi-instrumentalist Luis Alfredo Del Valle’s retro synthwave arrangements in stylish co-productions. A fashionable aesthetic, though, is only a small part of… Read More
Houston’s Khruangbin have gradually been building up a global audience over their young career. Their mixture of funk, R&B, psychedelia, and a grab bag of world-spanning musical influences has connected with a wide variety of listeners. Their largely instrumental approach… Read More
Daniel Avery’s greatest strength is, and has always been, his versatility. Since his 2013 full-length debut, Drone Logic, the Bournemouth producer’s had all the bases covered—house, electro, industrial, crushing IDM bangers, and even a hint of shoegaze. His last project… Read More
From 1976 to 1983, the US backed a brutal, anti-communist coup and dictatorship in Argentina that disappeared thousands of so-called subversives in the name of preserving social order. Perramus: The City and Oblivion was conceived in the regime’s penultimate year… Read More
What’s the opposite of rigor mortis, that stiffening of the joints that immediately follows death? Well, whatever it is, that’s the best way to summarize the sensation of taking in the new LP from the Bobby Lees, a Woodstock, New… Read More
Creeping in around the margins of hip-hop’s mainstream, though firmly situated on its flood banks, Fat Tony has made a curiosity of himself amongst the hip-hop culturati. Armed with a caché of influences that include electronica, post-punk and new wave… Read More
1. “Wuthering Heights” (The Kick Inside, 1978) Bush’s first hit single, “Wuthering Heights” is an ode to the famous novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. In the BBC documentary, Bush said she got the idea for the song… Read More
“It took me few years to recognize that I was always writing about outcasts or people living a little bit outside of the world – characters who obey their own laws and conscience” explains director Denis Côté. His 2010 drama… Read More