Vessels
If this second album from Vessels overwhelms, it’s more for the test of aural endurance it poses than for being truly groundbreaking.
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If this second album from Vessels overwhelms, it’s more for the test of aural endurance it poses than for being truly groundbreaking.
Mind Bokeh is Bibio’s most accomplished album to date, blending a soulful and vivid assortment of tracks and creating a dappled, uplifting arrangement.
Esben and the Witch’s uncompromising sound is being heard not only in back rooms and dimly lit bars, but it is also making its way into our musical landscape.
Synthesisers are complex and difficult instruments, but in musical circles, they’re considered some of the most beautiful. Here’s what it takes to build a behemoth.
Battersea Arts Centre brings people closer to theatre with the One-on-One Festival, exploring the relationships between audience and performer.
American artist, Romare Bearden’s (b.1911) practice is complex and wide reaching. This exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is the first to focus exclusively on collage…
Review by Colin Herd To accommodate Recent History, the Tate St Ives has reversed the sequence of galleries, so the show begins in Gallery 5…
Review by Ruaidhri Ryan “I’m not a film purist, for me it is about my own enjoyment; I really don’t feel part of a debate…
Review by Charles Danby The Jerwood Encounters series was launched in 2008 to investigate the margins of the primary fields of the Jerwood visual arts…
A disused terraced house in Bensham, Tyneside, which is scheduled for demolition, is to briefly enjoy a radical new life – as a contemporary art…
Review by Colin Herd In a tiny photograph of a domestic interior, the doors of an ornate wooden cabinet gape open. In the lower half…
Review by Emma Cummins In November 2010, the graduating students of the MA Curating Contemporary Art course at the Royal College of Art, invited the…
Review by Laura E. Barone, a candidate for the MA in Art History at Richmond the American International University in London The Embankment Galleries at…
Review by Paul Hardman Right from the first moment of entering this exhibition at the Serpentine, Spero’s art makes an assertive and powerful impression. Immediately…
The collaboration between Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most famous, tempestuous and productive creative relationships in Hollywood to date. To coincide…
European cinema occupies a special place in the heart of the cinema-going public: a Danish film, In a Better World, picked up the Best Foreign…
Preview by Rym Kechacha Born just outside Granada in the heart of Andalucía, the influential Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca was highly influenced by the…
Review by Tiffany Jow Comprised of items from Sharon Kivland’s personal archive of French magazines, postcards, advertising leaflets and objects from a variety of time…
Review by Alistair Quietsch The latest show at the St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life, Stardust – Some Thoughts on Death by Gillian Steel, is…