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"[Baudrillard's] vision of contemporary society exhibits a careening of
growth and excrescence (croissance et excroissance), expanding and
excreting eve...
“archives of resistance”
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In June I went to Bristol to do a *Still In A Dream* event at Strange
Brew. Wandering around, we saw all these posters for jungle raves and drum
and ba...
The Old Musical Express
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*New Musical Express *on the 1983 reissue of *Charlie Gillett*'s 1971 book *The
Sound of the City. *
Reviewer *Paul Du Noyer* notes that "*in...
Applause without ears
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Came across this review of *Shock and Awe* online and was reading it,
nodding along and thinking '*this is rather perceptive'* and then realised
it was ...
A Telex from yesterday's future
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An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics
compulsively position and reposition things they like, or are...
faves of the 2010s
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(Tracks not full lengths)
Ke$ha – “We R Who We R”
Ke$ha - “Backstabber”
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round"
Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
Those were the days, criticism that stung, critique that went for the kill with no fear of offending or reprisals.
ReplyDeletePlus, what was it with music journalists calling themselves Jonh?
I imagine in Wilde's case it was a homage / continuation of Jonh Ingham? I can't think of any other Jonh's though off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteI love this review, my favorite single thing by Jonh I think - just the sheer smiting he applies to the piffle.