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Fergal Kinney , March 15th, 2021 10:24 By 1995 Stereolab should have been at the peak of their powers, so why didn't it feel that way to Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier? Fergal Kinney examines the series of events that saw the band escape the dead end they'd ended up in culminating in the release of one of their most celebrated albums Viewed from the outside, by 1996 Stereolab must have seemed like a unit that could only ascend. Half a decade into the project, affectionately termed “the groop” by its nucleus members, the couple of Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, Stereolab appeared to be going overground. 1994’s
Nicholas Burman , March 13th, 2021 10:09 John Smith, the artist and film-maker whose landmark short The Girl Chewing Gum is amongst the jewels of the British avant-garde, has spent lockdown filming out of his bedroom window and downloading clips from YouTube. He talks to Nicholas Burman about his new films Citadel and Covid Messages Citadel by John Smith, courtesy MUBI Artistic and philosophical responses to lockdown appeared almost as quickly as lockdown itself did. Stuck inside, everyone was left with a sense of: what's this? And what's next? With a playful and ironic approach to deconstructing the narrative conventions of documentary cinema, the work of British art film maker John Smith has been pondering the "what's happening?" question for a few decades now. In recent years, Smith's also developed a special interest in identity, both national and internationalist. No doubt informed by his experiences teaching international students, and his relationship with the European arts scene, he's become increasingly preoccupied with Brexit and its implications, as well as the effect of the austerity narrative upon the nation.
Bernie Brooks , March 13th, 2021 10:08 Roy Wilkinson talks to Bernie Brooks about his serialised "non-nonfiction" book Dark Lustre, the path of most resistance, the predatory capitalism of modelmaking, and more "I've got a few visual prompts here," announces Roy Wilkinson. "It's going to be a multimedia extravaganza," he says as he waves a brochure in front of his webcam. We've been chatting about museums and museum funding for the better part of a half hour – the pamphlet in his hand relates to one in Birmingham. We're meant to be talking about Dark Lustre, his ongoing, serialised "non-nonfiction" book, and in a way, we are. While
With Drums Richard Foster , March 12th, 2021 08:49 Rutger Zuydervelt’s lockdown project, stitching together bursts of stick work from the likes of Tony Buck, Greg Saunier, and Yuko Oshima, proves an insightful glimpse into the downtime of musicians, finds Richard Foster If any record ever needed to be chosen to demonstrate the protean nature of making or listening to music, then I would suggest you listen to Machinefabriek’s With Drums. The often fleeting auditory qualities of Rutger Zuydervelt’s latest release, crammed full of percussive divertissements, let us do a multitude of things. We can ignore the record, or pay passing reference to it whilst doing something else. We can quickly process what’s going on (it’s Machinefabriek with lots of contact-book pals, and drums, from other pals), and consume appropriately, in our allotted digital spaces. We can also indulge ourselves and play footsie with it by decodifying the witty titles, or dive fully into the wormhole that is waiting for us and imagine how Zuydervelt created these mad worlds in miniature.
Christian Eede , March 10th, 2021 23:38 The Primal Scream frontman's book covers his Glasgow childhood and the events up to the release of 1991's 'Screamadelica' Bobby Gillespie has announced his first memoir, Tenement Kid. The autobiography is billed as the story of "a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house," and will cover the Primal Scream lead member's childhood in Glasgow as well as his time in the Jesus And Mary Chain, going all the way up to the release of Primal Scream 1991 third album, Screamadelica, and its subsequent tour. It's structured in four parts. "At the beginning of 2020 I wanted to challenge myself creatively and do something I had never done before," Gillespie says of the memoir. "I didn't want to write another rock record, I'd done plenty of those, so, I decided to write a memoir of my early life and worked on it all through the summer, autumn and winter of 2020 and here it is.
Christian Eede , March 10th, 2021 18:29 The Nine Inch Nails affiliate releases his second album for Mute in June Alessandro Cortini has a new album on the way. SCURO CHIARO takes its title from the term for heavily contrasting light and shadow in painting and other visual arts. Cortini says "it shows that no matter how you order things there's always going to be two elements that tend to be the opposite of each other that make up the truth — or make up everything." Cortini has shared lead track 'CHIAROSCURO' alongside the album's announcement, and you can listen to it above. Speaking about the track, the producer says: "It represents the record, where I was and where I am emotionally. It's to do with the conscious decision about trying to be positive, of striving for happiness while accepting the fact that happiness is not all positive."