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Enrico Monacelli

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Robin Mackay

By The North Sea

Author and Urbanomic director Robin Mackay drifts through mourning, melancholia and HP Lovecraft over dusty synths and mutant bass
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Jan Van Angelopoulos & Fotis Siotas

BKXS

Inspired by a two-and-a-half millennia-old tragic play, the Greek duo go deep on an album full of the weirdness of the past
Album of the Week

Inside Monster Mansion: Valosaasteen Sekaan By Musta Huone

The Finnish quartet fuse post-punk, cosmic music, and black metal into a heady brew that just gets weirder and weirder, deeper and deeper, darker and darker, finds Enrico Monacelli
Reviews

Sense Fracture

Landscape of Thorns

From Haunter Records, an album that tries to imagine what industrial music might mean in the 21st century
Album of the Week

Would You Be Free From The Burden Of Sin? Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s SAVED!

The artist formerly known as Lingua Ignota leaves it all behind with this searing missive from the other world, finds Enrico Monacelli
Reviews

Goat

Medicine

Swedish rockers get deeper into psychedelia, darker than ever before, finds Enrico Monacelli
Books

The Fight For Free Time: Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek’s Post-Work Future

In an inspired work of applied utopianism, the (co-)authors of Xenofeminism and Inventing the Future seek to expand the horizons of a world without labour. It all sounds eminently sensible to Enrico Monacelli
Books

Badly Recorded Boy: Author Enrico Monacelli’s Lo-Fi Playlist

To accompany the release of his new book The Great Psychic Outdoors, Enrico Monacelli offers up ten slices of raw, poor sound
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Glyders

Maria’s Hunt

Chicago duo's first album for Drag City sounds like something somethign knocked up in a shed – and all the better for it, finds Enrico Monacelli
Art

In The Laughing Lights: Max Ernst In Milan

Maybe a hard slog through a shopping centre is exactly the experience the great surrealist had in mind for the exhibition of his paintings? Who can say?
Art

A Spectre Is Haunting Mayfair: Haunted Realism At The Gagosian

Drawing on the work of cultural theorist Mark Fisher, the Gagosian Gallery’s present group show features work by Jenny Saville, Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince, among others
Books

Being In Love Is A Sticky Place: Elvia Wilk’s Death By Landscape

An essay collection by Elvia Wilk draws links between Jenny Hval, Mark Fisher, and Hildegard von Bingen
Books

Because You’re Worth It: Jake Chapman Rectifies George Orwell

With his brother Dinos, Jake Chapman has consistently offered up visions of hell. Now, in this new re-telling of 1984 for Urbanomic Press, he turns his attention to the hell of contemporary society
Books

Theme & Variations: An Interview With Juliet Jacques

Variations, the debut short story collection from Juliet Jacques, explores a hidden histor of trans and non-binary Britain. She talks to Enrico Monacelli about identity, secrecy, and nationhood
Books

Prole Art Threat: Cynthia Cruz On The Melancholia Of Class

With her new book The Melancholia of Class just out from Repeater Books, author Cynthia Cruz talks to Enrico Monacelli about identity politics, class consciousness, and why Mark E. Smith was one of the great working class militants of the 20th Century
Books

Raising A Column Of Fire: On Simon Morris’s Autobiographies

Amidst a glut of self-indulgent autofiction, Simon Morris's books stand out form the pack, finds Enrico Monacelli
Books

Sadness Is A Dagger Or A Portal Or A Fog: Claire Cronin’s Blue Lights Of The Screen

Claire Cronin's meditation on a life lived through mediation proves a tour de force of critical theory for Enrico Monacelli
Books

The Last Monday On Earth: Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire

Enrico Monacelli dives into a collection of Mark Fisher's final lectures

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