Sunday Afternoon Movie: Grey Gardens (1975) movie review
In honour of Mother’s Day, we look at the Bouvier – Beales, an eccentric-but-lovable pair of East Coast bluebloods, in 1975’s Grey Gardens. The Beales – Edith “Big Edie” Ewing … Continue reading
Plague Week: The Andromeda Strain (1971) movie review
Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel about an alien microorganism let loose on Earth is stark, chilling, claustrophobic, tense, and all too realistic. Science fiction movies featuring a biological … Continue reading
Unheimlich Pop: The Sone Institute – Where Moth and Rust Consume (Front & Follow)
On his first album in six years, Roman Bezdyk drags ’90s electronica into the moth-eaten world of Hauntology. Hauntology has expanded far beyond the confines of experimental electronic music from the … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Klaus Morlock – The Three Faces Of Janice ost
The Three Faces Of Janice is the soundtrack for a psychological, pastoral euro-trash giallo from 1977, all blurred lens and cult fornication in the fields. Or it would be, anyway, … Continue reading
Grime Time: Wolf Eyes – Undertow album review
On Wolf Eyes’ first album of original material in 2 years, Undertow, the infamous Detroit noise trio return with a meditation on timelessness, filth, uncertainty, identity, leather jackets, flesh, and … Continue reading
Happy Solstice! Hermione Harvestman – SOLIS : A Sonic Solstice Ritual for Winter Witches & Third Speaker in the Locus Tempus (1979)
Warm Synths For A Long, Cold, Dark Night When you think of midwinter rites and rituals, you likely think of yule logs, ancient hymns, spiced eggnog, holly, ivy, fairy lights. … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Steve Nolan – Sodium Party OST (Spun Out Of Control)
Steve Nolan’s soundtrack for the 2013 indie horror film Sodium Party starts off all innocence, sweetness, and light, before transporting you to the edge of night; to the brink of … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: Woodbines & Spiders – Woodbines & Spiders (Gecophonic)
When you hear the name Woodbines & Spiders, perhaps you envision some sort of creaking, cantankerous steamwheel, maybe behind the decayed album cover. Or maybe you just think of some … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: The Advisory Circle – From Out Here (Ghost Box)
The Advisory Circle depart the rolling green hills of England, for the inky infinite expanses of the unknown, on their spaciest album to date. The Ghost Box cabal, and hauntology … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe (Bird Records)
Jane Weaver creates a cosmic motorik folk concept record, based on a banned Andrzej Żuławski film, on her most ambitious and well-realized album to date. Jane Weaver is a lynchpin … Continue reading
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