Temple doesn't reach the highs of previous works, but seeing the act refine its sound provides its own sort of intrigue.
Music Reviews
Laurel Halo: Possessed
Halo’s soundtrack is as hopeful as it is cautionary, and as tied to the ancient as it is the futuristic.
Film Reviews
The Vast of Night
The Vast of Night avoids falling into mere pastiche, instead polishing its myriad well-worn elements until they collectively reveal new layers underneath.
The High Note
The High Note represents a big moment for a number of folks in front of and behind the camera.
Music Features
Discography: Yoko Ono: YOKOKIMTHURSTON
Feels like more than a curio, a frustrating failure to launch for what should have been an invigorating collaboration.
Reappraisal: Nivhek: After Its Own Death/Walking In An Empty Spiral Towards the House
The vibraphones come through more vividly than anything else.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Argento: The Stendhal Syndrome
An interesting outlier in this period of Argento’s work.
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Murder Party
Murder Party offers the kind of midnight-movie comedy-horror indulgence that manages to rise just barely above your average Netflix bargain-basement schlock.
Books
The Resisters: by Gish Jen
A dexterously imagined and yet firmly grounded near-future baseball novel.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold: by C Pam Zhang
Zhang takes a genre that has been stuck in its ways since the beginning, breaks it wide open and revels in it.
Lists
Brimful of Madness: A Britpop Mixtape
Who rules the ‘90s?
Social Distancing Made Easy: The Spectrum Culture Guide to Isolation: Day 34-36
We're all in this together.