July 2011
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Marsen Jules: Charming and delicious melancholy
Marsen Jules, artistic pseudonym for German-based Martin Juhls, is undeniably good at picking appropriate word describing his music. He debuted with Herbstlaub, German word for autumn leaves, which fittingly expressed its melancholic character, easily connected with fall from the visual point of view. What is moodier and bluer than falling leaves, chilly winds and early dusk? Here, he was one of...
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WatchFew days ago I was speculating about the dystopian nature of Gazelle Twin’s debut album, The Entire City with resulting impression that the uncertainty and vagueness of the apocalyptic tendencies are intentional. This video for GT’s third single Men Like Gods partly confirms the gloomy anticipation that the city she’s singing about is in an irreversible process of rot and decay....
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Ryan Teague: Causeway (review) →
It seems that the acoustic guitar is gaining momentum for the second time in its contemporary history. Interpretations of old guitar music - from transcripts for renaissance lute to late romanticism in Latin music - tend to be explained as a return to its roots. The argument goes that today’s pop music is too far from the relatively arty and natural music of 30’s to 50’s and it’s almost...
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Gazelle Twin: The Entire City (review) →
In contemporary art, the city serves as a coulisse for a portrait of a cold, anonymous, almost inhuman place, full of hopeless human entities that just pretend their life while living in machine-like cycles of work and insomnia. Whether in grim, industrial, information-age chaos or futuristic, supernatural order, the city acts as synonym for oppression of the masses and ceaseless...
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