The Year So Far
A Behemoth Playlist
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A Roll Of The Dice: Guided By Voices' Propeller Turns 30
With 35 studio albums as Guided By Voices, 22 solo records, and around 25 side projects, includ...
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The Crack Up: XTC’s English Settlement At 40
“A man does not recover from such jolts – he becomes a different person and, eventually, the ne...
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Not 'They' But 'We': Music Of The World's Peoples At 70
Before the internet, there existed the idea of the internet, or at least the unconscious desire...
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: An Oral History Of Soft Cell's Debut Album
Photo by Eugene Adebari There are many different strands to Soft Cell's debut album Non-Stop Er...
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Gutted, Hashed and Deboned: Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious By Carcass At 30
To push back a genre label is, all too often, a reliably generic move by artists desperately se...
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Reframing Our Environment: Pulp's We Love Life At 20
In Die Technik des Dramas (1863), Gustav Freytag argued for an ideal five act structure in stor...
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Concrète Dschungel: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps At 40
“[West Berlin is] a surrealist cage in which those inside are free.”György Ligeti. Feral music...
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Robert Fripp’s Drive To 1981: King Crimson’s Discipline at 40
When King Crimson released Discipline, their eighth studio album, on September 22 1981, reactio...
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Echo Decks: Stitching Together The Kaleidoscopic Tapestry Of Screamadelica
Image courtesy of Sony Music “What I've got in my head you can't buy, steal or borrow,” declar...
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Innocence And Experience: Lisa Left Eye Lopes' Supernova Turns 20
August 16, 2001, was supposed to be a big day for Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. She'd settled upon it ...
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