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Black Sky Thinking
Across The Glass Curtain: Eastbloc Music & Western Media
Recently an anonymous online pressure group accused western media of having a blindspot when it comes to culture from former Eastern Bloc countries, as well as other forms of systemic bias. Miloš Hroch investigates to what extent they have a point
A Quietus Interview
The Things Left Unsaid: An Interview With Martha Skye Murphy
As she prepares for the final instalment in a triptych of audacious singles, the polymathic Martha Skye Murphy speaks to Patrick Clarke about deep connections, the hubris of Jeff Bezos, and the value of keeping things uncomfortable
A Quietus Interview
Sonic Spaces: An Interview With Midori Takada
The once-obscure Japanese minimalist, whose 1983 album 'Through The Looking Glass' has now become one of the most celebrated ambient releases from the country, talks with Patrick St. Michel about her interest in African music, ahead of her appearance at Le Guess Who? festival
Black Sky Thinking
Taking The Heavy Metal Umlaut Seriously (Or, Why Motörhead Are Azerbaijani)
Riffing on the themes he explores in his new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language, Keith Kahn-Harris shares his love of diacritics and explains how the heavy metal umlaut might be less teutonic than it first appears
Music Downloads
The Healing Scream: Alison Cotton Interviewed
We're delighted that Alison Cotton, one of our artists of the year, has composed a Singularity track for our Sound & Vision subscribers. Here she tells Ned Raggett about new music and how she has processed the trauma of a recent road accident
Books
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It: Katie Goh’s Apocalyptic Obsessions
As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?
