A WOLF AMONG WOLVES... Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master and Everyone | Released: 2003 Drag City | Produced: Will Oldham | Genre: Lycanthropic alt-folk | NOT A MAN AMONG MEN... Why don't 'alpha male' marketing tactics work on me? Whenever I see a product described as "ultimate strength," or an indecipherably butch aftershave ad, or … Continue reading 34. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Master and Everyone
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THE DEER AT THE LAKE... Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell | Released: 2015 Asthmatic Kitty Records | Produced: Thomas Bartlett | Genre: hauntingly sparse elegiac stoicism | SIGNS AND WONDERS... "It was probably a mink." We floated on through the moat, nervously correcting our course through the narrow, reed-lined corridor. "If the coat was … Continue reading 21. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
MAN UP, PIPE DOWN... IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance | Released: 2018 Partisan Records | Produced: Space | Genre: Hardcore vulnerability | THE MASK OF MASCULINITY / IS A MASK THAT'S WEARING ME... At time of writing, it's World Mental Health Day - an event designed to increase awareness of mental health … Continue reading 17. IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
BEFORE THE WATER GETS TOO HIGH... Parquet Courts - Wide Awake | Released: 2018 Rough Trade | Produced: Dangermouse | Genre: Anxiety punk | NOTHING REMINDS THE MIND OF POWER LIKE THE CHEAP ODOUR OF PLASTIC / LEAKING FUMES, WE CRAVE, CONSUME: THE RUSH, IT FEELS FANTASTIC...How do you write about the end of the world? The sheer scale of … Continue reading 15. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
IF YOU DON'T COME DOWN SOON... Victorialand - Cocteau Twins | Released: 1986 4AD Records | Produced: Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie | Genre: Ethereal shoe/star-gaze, transmitted from deep space by a cosmonaut in a chiffon dress | I AM THE ONE AND ONLY... I'm writing this on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission … Continue reading 5. Cocteau Twins – Victorialand