Norwegian experimental art pop musician Jenny Hval has released her newest LP, Apocalypse, girl, in league with producer Lasse Marhaug and members ... More

Jenny Hval

Album “Apocalypse Girl”

Jenny Hval

Album “Apocalypse Girl”

Norwegian experimental art pop musician Jenny Hval has released her newest LP, Apocalypse, girl, in league with producer Lasse Marhaug and members of Jaga Jazzist and Swans. Apocalypse, girl is Hval’s fourth LP, counting last year’s Meshes of Voices – her well-received collaboration with fellow Norweigan Susanna Wallumrød of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. Hval has toured with the likes of St. Vincent and Perfume Genius following her successful 2013 album Innocence is Kinky. Apocalypse, girl surpasses Innocence is Kinky as the more adult, ambiguous and strung-out pop cry for meaning over substance… Or as Hval posits it in “Kingsize” – “What is SOFT DICK ROCK?” (Sacred Bones)

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Since their 2007 debut, Prinzhorn Dance School has whittled their minimal, post-punk sound into an even sparser and sharper form. While their ... More

Prinzhorn Dance School

Album “Home Economics”

Prinzhorn Dance School

Album “Home Economics”

Since their 2007 debut, Prinzhorn Dance School has whittled their minimal, post-punk sound into an even sparser and sharper form. While their new six-track Home Economics is indeed economical, it was not made at home. The Brighton, UK duo, comprised of Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn, recorded their third LP in various apartments while traveling. Prinzhorn’s sound joins the ranks of artists from Young Marble Giants to Swell Maps to Pylon to The xx – never a bad thing, especially since Home Economics excels in conjuring a nebulous yet potent lovesickness.

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“This film is in sign language. There are no subtitles and no voice-over. Because for love and hatred, you don’t need translation.” ... More

The Tribe

Film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

The Tribe

Film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

“This film is in sign language. There are no subtitles and no voice-over. Because for love and hatred, you don’t need translation.”

Ukrainian director and screenwriter Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy set out to create a modern day silent film, and succeeded by staging a world where words no longer matter. Unrelenting ambient noise and Slaboshpytskiy’s long, continuous shots frame the brutal realism of The Tribe and it’s story of prostitution, gangs and crime at a deaf boarding school. With a cast of deaf actors, most newcomers, Slaboshpytskiy spent several years in pre-production, over six months filming, a meticulous 7-10 days of rehearsal per scene, and miraculously just one hour editing the film. The Tribe has won wide acclaim, including the International Critics’ Week Award at Cannes 2014, and could not be more timely as a subcultural drama informing contemporary speculation on Ukranian youth culture and political tension.

Look out for a feature with lead actor Yana Novikova in Issue 5.

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Winner of both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ... More

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Winner of both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rajon, former assistant to Scorsese whose repertoire includes American Horror Story and Glee. Based on a loosely autobiographical novel written and adapted by screenwriter Jesse Andrews, Me and Early and the Dying Girl deftly navigates the pitfalls of its own plot – a “doomed friendship” between the protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann) and his new friend Rachel (Olivia Cooke), recently diagnosed with Leukemia. Thomas and Earl (R.J. Cyler) are high school film geeks who construct dopey movies at home and are compelled to make one for their sick friend. Self-referential and classically angsty, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl nods to many film greats while setting the stage for bright new talent.

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Perth trio Methyl Ethyl debuts their first LP, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, following a string of experimental pop releases throughout the past two ... More

Methyl Ethel

Album “Oh Inhuman Spectacle”

Methyl Ethel

Album “Oh Inhuman Spectacle”

Perth trio Methyl Ethyl debuts their first LP, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, following a string of experimental pop releases throughout the past two years (Teeth, Guts and Rogues). The band is the expanded solo project of Jake Webb, previously of Australian outfits Sugarpuss, Rabbit Island and Grace Woodroofe, filled out with musicians Chris Wright and Thom Stewart. Oh Inhuman Spectacle began evolving years ago in various bedrooms, friends’ studios and a muggy storefront inhabited by Webb for a time. It finally emerges as a showcase for Webb’s gentle, androgynous vocals, underpinned by bass lines and upheld by ambient synth and provocative guitar melodies.

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“Before The World Was Big” is the first full-length LP offering of Los Angeles’s rising indie rock outfit, Girlpool. Duo Harmony Tividad ... More

Girlpool

Album “Before The World Was Big”

Girlpool

Album “Before The World Was Big”

“Before The World Was Big” is the first full-length LP offering of Los Angeles’s rising indie rock outfit, Girlpool. Duo Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker recorded the 10 tracks on BTWWB at the end of 2014 after relocating to Philadelphia. The album is produced by Kyle Gilbride of Swearin’ (Waxahatchee, Quarterbacks) and continues the topics of “growth, friendship, and interaction between identity and environment” begun on on Girlpool’s 2014 self-titled EP.

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Hedi Slimane poster boy and frontman of the indie hit band Girls, Christopher Owens has released his third solo album. “Chrissybaby Forever” ... More

Christopher Owens

Album “Chrissybaby Forever”

Christopher Owens

Album “Chrissybaby Forever”

Hedi Slimane poster boy and frontman of the indie hit band Girls, Christopher Owens has released his third solo album. “Chrissybaby Forever” is the first album Owens has recorded alone, with the engineering help of a friend, since Girls’ debut album, “Album”, in 2009. Owens has also released a music video for the album track “To Take Care of Myself” which he directed himself.

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Celebrating the May 28 premiere of NBC’s “Aquarius” (a new series about Charles Manson, his devoted young followers, and the detective who ... More

Preview: Emma Dumont

Fashion Shoot

Preview: Emma Dumont

Fashion Shoot

 

Celebrating the May 28 premiere of NBC’s “Aquarius” (a new series about Charles Manson, his devoted young followers, and the detective who sets out to solve the case), here is a preview of our own Manson Family-themed fashion shoot with co-star Emma Dumont.

Images by Jan-Willem Dikkers
Stylist: Lisa Madonna
Make Up: Anthony Merante / Celestine
Hair: Aaron Light / Celestine

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Kristian Matsson, better known as The Tallest Man on Earth, prefers to play each instrument himself, while occasionally drawing from outside talent, ... More

The Tallest Man on Earth

Album “Dark Bird Is Home”

The Tallest Man on Earth

Album “Dark Bird Is Home”

Kristian Matsson, better known as The Tallest Man on Earth, prefers to play each instrument himself, while occasionally drawing from outside talent, such as vocals and strings from Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce. “Dark Bird Is Home”, Matsson’s new album via Dead Oceans, is invigoratingly direct and has the undeniable playfulness of a tradesman at ease with his tools. It is his second studio album following 2012’s “There’s No Leaving Now” which initiated an era of refined production for The Tallest Man on Earth’s well-loved, lonesome sound. Mattson’s effortlessness never ceases to astonish as it pioneers even further into well-traveled territories. For longtime fans, the music and lyrics of “Dark Bird Is Home” is a therapy of sorts, offering new comments on comforting themes.

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