Taking as his subject the Japanese company Family Romance LLC, director Werner Herzog returns to offer a work widely labelled as ‘strange’ by the media that renders…
Built to Spill’s latest is a celebration of Daniel Johnston that regrettably undermines the best of both parties. The ethical conundrum that surrounds Daniel Johnston’s…
Ghostpoet’s latest is a moody, atmospheric haunted house of an album that represents another step in his artistic evolution. Ghostpoet has always been a serious artist; both thematically…
Shutting Down Here represents a clear advancement of O’Rourke’s familiar ideas and is one of richest sonic achievements. In a recent interview, Jim O’Rourke called his…
Charity albums don’t have to sacrifice quality, and Mall Grab’s Don’t Keep the Fire Burning is evidence. Mark Newlands wants to punch you in the face…
Mestarin kynsi is Oranssi Pazuzu’s grandest achievement, a cohesive nightmare symphony of mystical dread. Located somewhere near the depths of the Mariana Trench and dragged thousands…
Honey Harper Honey Harper isn’t yet a big name. But if you’ve had any exposure to the musician, you’ll know of his reputation as the…
Honey Harper’s Starmaker offers a delicate, otherworldly reimagining of country music. Honey Harper isn’t yet a big name. But if you’ve had any exposure to the musician,…
There’s a half-hour experimental short located somewhere in Cenote, one that drops the lame docu- framing device as a pretext for the gorgeous underwater footage…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has mostly veered away from the kind of oblique horror films that made his international reputation back in the late 90s and early…
Haruhiko Arai is a four-decade veteran screenwriter and director specializing in erotic films, cutting his teeth with the legendary pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu, and…
Labyrinth of Cinema Nobuhiko Obayashi, who passed away earlier this year, on April 10, was until recently relegated to the periphery of cinematic discussions of…
After recent collaborative albums, Punisher shows Phoebe Bridgers to be a complex and preternaturally formed artist in her own right. At this point, Phoebe Bridgers…
Yves Tumor’s latest realizes an androgynous vision of rock ‘n roll and continues their morphology as an artist. It’s hard to imagine an artist reinventing…
Heavy Light sets the bleak landscape of contemporary society to the sounds of bubblegum pop. Meg Remy understands human struggle. On Heavy Light, the newest U.S.…
Songs for Our Daughter is another in a run of lyrically-precise, sonically-varied Laura Marling efforts. Songs for Our Daughter, Laura Marling’s seventh LP, finds the folk…
KiCk i is lame and tame — a pop-forward album of limited imagination and experimentation. It’s been a busy last few years for Alejandra Ghersi. In-between…
Phoebe Bridgers At this point, Phoebe Bridgers seems unstoppable. While Punisher is only her second solo studio album, she’s been busy since her 2017 debut…
Relic is a nifty work of ambiguous horror built on the duality of destruction and creation. Relic, the debut feature from Japanese-Australian director Natalie Erika James,…
City on Lock is a warm-up round for the heights City Girls are sure to ascend to. City Girls are a hyper-feminine performance, and a bit…
The Deluxe edition of Eternal Atake adds a wrinkle of inequity to the album’s two halves, but it remains an fascinating document of Uzi’s evolution as…