Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen Martin Subverts Verse to Infect the Senses
Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen Martin’s words snake their way into one’s consciousness and viciously bite at the tragic absurdity of American racism.
Alison Ross
Clockwise Cat publisher and editor, Alison Ross, uses Zen-Surrealism as her guiding aesthetic. Alison has been a featured poet at Surreal Poetics. In addition, she has published reviews and editorials in various publications, including Fear of Monkeys and PopMatters. Links to her work (poetry, polemics and reviews) can be found at: www.symmetryofbirds.blogspot.com.
The Cure’s Genre-Defining and Genre-Defying ‘Faith’ 40 Years On
The Cure’s Faith–released 40 years ago this April–comes from a haunted, solipsistic place and it seduces you into its tormented world.
Martyrs and Murderers and Post-Punk Dialogues Between Dublin and Detroit
Dublin's the Murder Capital and Detroit's Protomartyr both delve into murky existential lyrical terrain as riotous riffs reverberate and drums pound militantly, infusing the atmosphere with ominous sonic shadows.
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings ‘Every Day We Get More Illegal’
Every Day We Get More Illegal, seems to foretell a diatribe vibe, but threaded throughout Herrera's verse is the musicality--the calming, invigorating melodies that remind us, ever so sweetly, if insistently: Latino lives are beloved.
Bright Eyes’ ‘Down in the Weeds’ Is a Return to Form and a Statement of Hope
Bright Eyes may not technically be emo, but they are transcendently expressive, beatifically melancholic. Down in the Weeds is just the statement of grounding that we need as a respite from the churning chaos around us.
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The Cure’s ‘Seaside’ Cure for Sheltering at Home
In these times of pandemic turmoil and outright trauma, what better match does the tempestuous human soul have than the sea? And what better lyricist than the Cure's Robert Smith, who twins the wrath (or sadness) of the sea with similar human emotions?
Nostalgia for the Downtown Slacker: Bertoglio’s ‘Downtown 81’ and Linklater’s ‘Slacker’
Bertoglio’s Downtown 81 and Linklater’s Slacker showcase blissfully aimless, anarchic souls discretely or overtly spurning a predictable, soulless society.
Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Dogrel’ and the Power of the Voice
The vocals on Fontaines D.C. debut, Dogrel, are megaphonic, more shouty than croony. Indeed, Fontaines D.C. is spoken-word, white-boy rap at its most vociferous and off-kilter.
Deerhunter’s Transcendent Trajectory
Deerhunter's Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and Cryptograms are antithetical twins -- shattered mirror images, whose fragments echo each other and reflect Deerhunter's beginnings of and return to inspired experimentation.
The Cure’s Pornographic Cure: Bittersweet Relief
The Cure's Pornography is so much more than just the ponderously murky, suicide-inducing effort it's often made out to be.