Laurie Chen

Clark

Death Peak

A Kind Of Blue: Reflections On The Moonlight Soundtrack

Laurie Chen takes an in depth look at the Oscar winning Moonlight's use of music, from chamber orchestration to chopped and screwed hip-hop

The Artist Is Absent: Frank Ocean’s Coded Queerness

Underneath the frenzied media hype surrounding the release of his latest album, Frank Ocean remains an enigma. Laurie Chen reads between the lines to find shifting, forever elusive portrayals of queerness from an introverted visionary