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Klypi ‘Consensual Hits’
It’s too late. Any budding music journalist looking to break the next big thing in Tennessean, queer electropop has been beaten to the chase by one Vixcine Martine, distinguished professor of art/music ‘herstory’ and author of seminal critique White Heat – The Desire to Discredit the Feminine, supposing Madonna’s reinforcement of patriarchal structures behind a…
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Wildes ‘RAWWR’
The Neue Deutsche Welle was a peculiarly disparate movement. Germany’s answer to the concurrent post-punk and no-wave expanding the peripheries of punk in Britain and the States, the German New Wave of the early eighties encompassed a wide scope of styles, ranging from Einstürzende Neubauten’s industrial racket, Der Plan’s Dadaist theatrics, to the spirited synthpop…
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International Women’s Day 2021
It’s incredibly easy to coast through life arrogantly convinced of your own progressive principals without real, rigorous scrutiny of a system that affords us men easy mobility while spouting feminist rhetoric. How many of us have passively floated to the top of the music industry, or any sector of work for that matter, while being…
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Nervous Guy ‘Nerva Sky’
The year is 2037. Amid a decaying social order and broiling anger at the corrupt, corporate plutocracy, the disenfranchised masses finally revolt after the catastrophic mishandling of a global viral pandemic from an indifferent political class. Mass protests and civil war engulf the Western World, and the fascistic agents of hyper-capital come to a chilling…
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Doll Klaw ‘Thorns’
In an increasingly atomised society still hopelessly wedded to the ‘cult of the individual’, the unifying spell of introspection wrought by a world in lockdown and existential uncertainty seemed to dismantle the cast-iron doctrines of unbridled individualism and competitive strife. As fragments of the social contract were rekindled and repaired, clarity, perspective and priorities were…
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Cuir ‘Album’
The new frontier forged by the cataclysmic upheaval of punk was a good thing, right? Post-punk, art-punk, industrial, synthpop, etc etc were supposed to be the exciting new possibilities of punk’s meteoric impact, the D.I.Y. ethos harnessed by the new wave of belligerent iconoclasts ready to broaden punk’s horizons. “…Trendy university people using long words,…
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