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Farrah Abraham – My Teenage Dream Ended
In the decade since its release, former Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham’s first and only album My Teenage Dream Ended has grown from a seemingly laughable cash-grab to a respected curioso in the landscape of contemporary pop. Labelled a precursor… Continue reading
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Israel’s Bombardment of the Gaza Strip Does Not Constitute Self-Defence
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of collective or individual self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace… Continue reading
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A Coup Against Football
Seeing last week’s defiant response to the now abandoned proposals for a European Super League in football left me feeling a curious mixture of encouragement and sadness. Make no mistake, the massive mobilisations were a win for football fans everywhere.… Continue reading
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Sulka – Take Care (Review)
Sulka is the solo project of Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Lukas Clasen, who over the past four years has released a string of EPs and proved himself a stalwart of the Glasgow live scene. Take Care, his latest release on Pictish Trail’s… Continue reading
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Deniz Cuylan – No Such Thing As Free Will (Review)
Turkish-born, LA-based musician Deniz Cuylan conjures imagistic sounds that combine abstract notions of the sublime with highly resonant emotional affects. His career has seen him work across various genres and setups, scoring for film and television series and even composing… Continue reading
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Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Review)
“I don’t give a fuck about the past / Our glory days gone by,” growls Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat on ‘The Turning of Our Bones’, opener to the Falkirk duo’s first album in sixteen years. It’s a proclamatory statement, a… Continue reading
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Oliver Coates – skins n slime (Review)
Warning: This review references sexual assault and explores themes some readers may find unsettling. When celluloid film gets jammed inside a malfunctioning projector, the intense light required to project images onto a screen causes the film to burn up. The… Continue reading
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Slowthai – TYRON (Review)
There is a subtle shift that takes place in an artist’s career between the release of a widely successful album and its highly anticipated follow-up, a shift in the relationship between the artist and their listeners. In the beginning, this… Continue reading
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Learning To Adapt
If you are someone who wishes they could spend more time creating instead of being perpetually stuck in a state of block, then Spike Jonze’s 2002 film Adaptation is essential viewing. This metafilm follows real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (played by… Continue reading
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Sufjan Stevens: Where Has My America Gone?
During the early years of the twenty-first century, commentators on American cultural life had begun to notice a certain social wide attitudinal shift. In the latter decades of the second millennium, a smirking, cynical stance had come to infect everything… Continue reading
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