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Carla Bozulich – Boy - March 2014 March 2nd, 2014
Bozulich’s 2002 album Red Headed Stranger illuminated the itinerant art-punk survivor’s exhaustingly immersive world with familiar country and western sounds, but here she’s adrift in an alien landscape of tortured heroin-blues and unstructured torch songs, scarred by industrial noise and collapsing percussion. There are no simple signposts in this stormy sea, but if Boy emerged…
Preview: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, BBC2 - February 2014 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - February 25th, 2014
The comedy gods have smiled upon us. Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is back again for a third series. Of course there is no god, comedy or otherwise, so let’s just celebrate the return to television of contemporary stand up’s smartest sage. In fact there are two smart sages for the price of one here. Chris…
Sound/Track – Headland - February 2014 February 23rd, 2014
Luminaries of the Melbourne mafia gathered around the multi-instrumentalist Murray Patterson to soundtrack found ‘70s super8 footage of the New South Wales coastline. Patterson’s lap steel, its swooping sweeps familiar from Tex Perkins’ pellucid Dark Horses records, lends a rustic flavor to the group’s quietly expansive compositions, though there’s an empty space in the shape…