Album Review: Aureate Gloom – Of Montreal
Having listened to this album on repeat for two days, I feel both gratified and misled. Like Odysseus wrestling with Proteus on the sands, at the beginning of this experience,….
Having listened to this album on repeat for two days, I feel both gratified and misled. Like Odysseus wrestling with Proteus on the sands, at the beginning of this experience,….
As I strode out onto the plains surrounding Stonehenge, I felt waves of happiness reach out for me, dissolving any negativity still lingering within me. The drive down with the….
“Art should be not branded,” the appropriately named keyboardist Arto Karvonen opined back in 2006, and, indeed, this assertion could well become the band’s motto. Consistently surprising both their followers….
2015 has been a monumental year for me so far. Revolutions in my personal life aside, there have been two films that have really made film history for me this….
I’m always surprised by just how effective and emotionally affecting this quirky two-piece can be. A jumble of anachronisms from both the past and future, clad in bowtie and necessarily….
This album has probably had greater control over my facial muscles than any other I’ve listened to in recent memory. No sooner do I hear the opening refrains of the….
Susanne Sundfør has a voice that insists upon stymying all of my attempts to describe it. Whilst traces of it can be found in the bird-like florescence of Elizabeth Fraser….
Admittedly, this was not my most successful film viewing venture. I had not realized prior to arriving at the cinema that our screening was to be in 3D, and, unwilling….
Vulnicura, Bjork’s eighth studio album, means ‘curing of wounds’. And I can think of no better encapsulation for it: a nine-song suite in which a woman hands herself her own….
In line with the old adage ‘if you can’t say anything nice, then you shouldn’t say anything at all,’ I reasoned that it was my role in life to support….