Dua Lipa blasts forward into the future.
Music Reviews
The Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue (Limited Edition Boxset)
Ammonia Avenue finds the Alan Parsons Project at their final peak as a band.
Film Reviews
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Even in a year at the cinema not ground down to a halt by a global pandemic, Never Rarely Sometimes Always would likely find itself on many top…
Clover
It's as if Tarantino left production halfway through to be replaced by the Coen brothers.
Music Features
Interview: Shauna Boyle of Cable Ties
"I hope that having this record out for people gives them that little bit of energy to power on through and to remain hopeful and to remain angry…
Discography: Yoko Ono: It’s Alright (I See Rainbows)
Even the most bubble-gum moments on It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) demand greater attention than we’re used to and, in return, deliver unexpected rewards.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Argento: Deep Red
Deep Red is one of the director’s most probing meditations on violence.
Holy Hell! Dinosaur Turns 20
Better-looking dinosaurs have been made by movie studios in the 20 years since Dinosaur, but these surrogate humans’ message feels more vital than ever.
Books
Doxology: by Nell Zink
Doxology loses its way as it attempts to make sense of these past few years.
Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: by Malcolm Harris
The struggles facing millennials are only a part of a larger material struggle.
Lists
Social Distancing Made Easy: The Spectrum Culture Guide to Isolation: Day 17-19
We're all in this together.
List Inconsequential: I Forgot I Bought This
The coronavirus crisis allows the Spectrum staff to dig up media we had once bought...and then forgot about.