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Cross-hairs all over the borderline – Jose Gonzales, The Knife, Andreas Nilsson

I adored the song ‘Heartbeats’ when it first came through in the early 00’s.  Attached to a particularly artful ad for a television.  Jose Gonzalez wasn’t just breaking out with an artful acoustic song (a ‘sensitive’ song, Neil Young might call it), he was breaking through with a sound and a body of work (namely […]

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Getting free of snares and nets – Atoms for Peace

It felt like quite a singular gesture, coming from the art assemblage when i realised about the name of Thom Yorke’s alternate band ‘Atoms For Peace’ as a kind of repositioning of the atom in state-power terms from its symbol and locus as science-militarism’s apogee of destructive scale.  To now be speaking (as it were) […]