Music Reviews
Horsegirl Discover Their Identity on Superb New Album
With Phonetics On and On, Horsegirl move beyond their influences, carving out a distinct identity shaped through time and life experience.
Music Features
40 Years of the Cure’s First True Surrealist Pop Album
Forty-year-old The Head on the Door propelled the Cure toward arena stature with its musical cohesion and a collection of hallucinatory yet accessible songs.
Film
Moses Sumney’s ‘Blackalachia’ and the Forest
In Moses Sumney’s beautiful 2021 performance film Blackalachia, the forest is a friend, a threat, a looming watcher, and an extension of the narrator’s person.
Television
The Penguin’s Means, Ends, and Morality
‘The Penguin’ compels us to interrogate our morality: do we treat others in our lives only as means to an end?
Books
The Slavic Fairytale’s Baba Yaga Upends Japanese Yakuza Culture
Slavic Fairytale’s Baba Yaga refuses to conform to a woman role in patriarchial Japanese yakuza culture.
Games
Scarity Is Stressed in Video Game ‘Citizen Sleeper II: Starward Vector’
I’ve never played a video game so punishing as Citizen Sleeper II: Starward Vector, which stresses scarcity by playing for scraps.
Lists
10 Brilliant Music Books on the Art & Industry
From rock to hip-hop to country to punk to emo, here’s a list of superb music books to deepen the education for you or the music lover in your life.
Interviews
Gypsy & the Cat and the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’
Australian dream pop duo Gypsy & the Cat reflect on how the ancient Homeric poem ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’ informed their music career.
PopMatters Picks
Horsegirl Discover Their Identity on Superb New Album
With Phonetics On and On, Horsegirl move beyond their influences, carving out a distinct identity shaped through time and life experience.