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Adrian Mark Lore | Monday, October 9, 2017
We stand on the shoulders of giants, but refuse to question their infallibility. This noxious rigidity is the metastasis of blind faith: who are our “forefathers” and why do we care? What do they know that we know not better now? This anti-dogmatic thesis saturates Ben Frost’s latest studio record, “The Centre Cannot Hold,” with
Adrian Mark Lore | Thursday, September 21, 2017
What’s that band you wholeheartedly enjoy, wholeheartedly trust — yet which nobody else seems to notice? For me, that’s easily Mount Kimbie. I’d been converted many years ago, upon the release of “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth,” their 2013 sophomore full-length record; it was one of the first vinyl records I ever owned. Still today,
Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, April 26, 2017
It’s boring. That’s how I truly feel about Venezuelan producer Alejandro Ghersi’s solo output as Arca, which, in spite of my own experience, has been widely successful among critics. So I can’t help but think: Am I missing something? In an attempt to find out, I listened to Arca’s latest, self-titled record, released in early
Adrian Mark Lore | Friday, March 3, 2017
Xiu Xiu has been busy. Unlike most other Western bands who condense their output into discrete, full-length albums and release them in usually predictable intervals of time, the members of this avant-garde musical group have sunk their hands into a wide variety of formats and genres in recent years. Since the turn of the millennium,