Great Area Captures the ‘Uncodable’ Nature of Human Fragility
As disorienting as they aspire to be, Great Area’s songs are both deeply affecting and oddly reassuring, capturing the ‘uncodable’ nature of human fragility.
Giuseppe Zevolli
I am a music journalist and lecturer based in London (Lecturer in Media and Communications at Regent's University London and Liberal Arts Tutor at King's College London). My journalistic work has appeared in publications such as Clash, Drowned In Sound, Il Mucchio, and Sentireascoltare, whereas my academic work on popular music and identity has appeared in Popular Music Studies, Norient, Metal Music Studies, and edited collections by Bloomsbury and Routledge. Website: giuseppezevolli.com
Hymns to Uncool or Reconsidering Lisa Germano’s ‘Geek the Girl’
A bold investigation of a woman’s journey through self-acceptance, Lisa Germano’s unsettling opus Geek the Girl fell through the cracks of the alternative mainstream in 1994.