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August 1, 2021Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history
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Culture
August 1, 2021Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history
Culture
June 1, 2021More than a feeling: ‘New Long Leg’
The deadpan spoken-word vocals of British post-punk band Dry Cleaning are the mesmeric expression of online consciousness
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May 1, 2021Always tomorrow: ‘Promises’
Legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders joins electronic musician Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra for a compositionally minimalist album
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April 1, 2021Girls don’t cry: Arlo Parks and Phoebe Bridgers
Two young musicians spark the old double standard of judging female artists who demonstrate their pain
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March 1, 2021‘For the first time’ by Black Country, New Road
The debut from the latest British Art School Band delivers perfect pop with arch lyrics that owe a debt to Jarvis Cocker
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March 1, 2021Listening to country: ‘Fractures & Frequencies’ and ‘Infractions’
Elegiac installations from Megan Cope and Rachel O’Reilly at UNSW Galleries call for an understanding of the land as a living entity under threat
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December 8, 2020Trite Christmas: ‘Happiest Season’
Despite appearances, this queer romcom is straighter than it seems
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November 26, 2020Song sisters
The soundtrack to documentary ‘Brazen Hussies’ shows a breadth of feeling about women’s liberation in Australia
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December 1, 2020Ready steady gone
The passing of its figureheads underscores pop music’s waning influence on personal identity
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October 28, 2020Quiet desperation: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
Eliza Hittman’s abortion drama is marked by the emotional solidarity of its teen protagonists
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September 24, 2020Bunkered down: ‘The Translators’
With a confusing plot and a reliance on clichés, the French thriller fails to excite
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October 1, 2020Listening to Roberta Flack
‘First Take’, released 50 years ago, still echoes through the present
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September 1, 2020Audio tapestry
A tangle of red tape is robbing us of music podcasts in Australia
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August 5, 2020Milk it: ‘First Cow’
Kelly Reichardt’s restrained frontier film considers the uneasy problems of money and resources
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July 1, 2020The heat of a moment: Ziggy Ramo’s ‘Black Thoughts’
A debut hip-hop album that calls for a reckoning with Indigenous sovereignty and invites the listener to respond