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July 15, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark

Fusing neo-jazz with folk and rock, Joni Mitchell’s sixth studio album – Court and Spark – deftly weaves a sonic tapestry whose lyrical tenor plays counterpoint and asks the listener to weigh the costs of emotional commitment against the benefits of casual relationships.

September 12, 2021

Soundtrack: Kill Bill Vol. 1 – Quentin Tarantino

A single screening of a pop culture obsessive’s homage to martial arts/grindhouse cinema is all it takes to seriously consider director Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1 as possibly film’s greatest soundtrack mash-up.

October 14, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model

Just like today, gloomy mid-‘70s London pubs were redolent with the scent of stale beer, sweat, cigarettes and the promise of a smile or a wink under the wan lighting. The difference between then and now, is that pub windows no longer flex under the punitive fury of British new wave icons the likes of skinny-suited, bespectacled, and whippet-thin Declan Patrick MacManus, better known as Elvis Costello.

November 19, 2021

Burial – An Alternate Career Retrospective

Born a few years too early to have experienced the heyday of the UK rave scene first hand, Burial’s evocation of the culture feels more like a dream inspired by an older sibling’s hazy account of the experience.