Between the Grooves of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’
After a quarter of the century has passed, Radiohead’s Kid A still stands as one of the 2000s era-defining artistic statements. Ten writers reflect on the songs.
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MISSIO Serve Up the Emotions on ‘Love & Heartbreak’
MISSIO’s Love & Heartbreak should be regarded as an art installation by its own terms, measurements that do credit to the furnished piece.
Telehealth Disrupt Dystopia with ‘Green World Image’
Telehealth create angular grooves and twitchy rhythms and look askance at our modern-day neoliberal nightmare as we doomscroll ourselves to oblivion.
Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ Is Gorgeous and Moving
Radiohead operate in an entirely different dimension than anybody else in music. They don’t bother with arbitrary boundaries or definitions about what rock should be.
Depeche Mode’s “Stripped” Encapsulates Analog to Algorithmic Longing
In future generations, it is easy to see Depeche Mode’s “Stripped” inspiring the same sensual viscerality as humans being penetrated by their AI sex dolls.
Nine Inch Nails’ Dive into the Green Decay
Just as J.G. Ballard framed decay and overgrowth as both terrifying and strangely beautiful, Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile exists in that same green duality; lush, hypnotic, and suffocating.
STS9 Light Up California with Transcendent Shows
STS9 conjure pure mana for the soul with their wizardly sonic alchemy. The livetronica tone scientists continue to play at a very high level.
Electronic Rockers Fat Dog Go ‘WOOF’
Fat Dog’s combination of live instruments and rock influences with a more modern dance sound seems like a winner for finding an audience in 2024.
‘Belaya Polosa’ Expands Molchat Doma’s Industrial Palette
Belaya Polosa is full of Molchat Doma’s most complex and overtly human music, organically integrated into their melancholy post-punk atmosphere.
STS9 Dazzle the Senses on ‘Chromalight’
Chromalight keeps a long winning streak going as STS9 continue pushing boundaries with their genre-blending sonic alchemy and collective improvisations.
Kasabian Deliver Infectious Grooves on ‘Happenings’
Conceived in a spirit of celebration, Kasabian’s eighth LP is a concise, stadium-friendly set of danceable, infectiousness pop-rock for life’s brighter moments.
Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl, and Punk
Riot Grrrl’s activism and grass-roots activity showed the movement was more concerned with breaking the rules and conventions than breaking through in punk.