An Eraser and a Maze is a sign that the worst is truly behind them. It takes the bright, psychedelic colors that characterized The Golden Casket and brings them more in line with what made the band tr...
Identification of a Woman, a late career Antonioni film and the last he directed entirely by himself, might be for sickos and completionists only. But it also contains some of the most sublime photography of the master's career.
At @spectrumculture.bsky.social I tried to make sense of it all.
I wrote about Sonic Youth's first great album for @spectrumculture.bsky.social. Still brilliant, even if it annoys me that streaming services list "Expressway to Yr. Skull" as "Madonna, Sean & Me." Further evidence of the superiority of physical media: spectrumculture.com/2026/06/10/d...
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Identification of a Woman is a film known for its sex scenes, not its cinematic power, and indeed, its eroticism is provocative even by today’s standards.
Sonic Youth's third album and SST debut introduced Steve Shelley to the world and showed that arty avant-gardisms and howling hardcore could be turned into genuine songs. It changed things for the ban...
WE RECOMMEND: SUSS: Counting Sunsets
SUSS's careful work on Counting Sunsets creates an intoxicating, cinematic masterpiece of perfectly curated sound.
WE RECOMMEND: Vince Staples: Cry Baby
After a run of similar-sounding introspective records molded primarily by Def Jam’s concerns about keeping him hip hop, Cry Baby marks a breakaway from the norm for Vince Staples. It may not be punk, precisely, but it certainly rhymes.
SUSS's careful work on Counting Sunsets creates an intoxicating, cinematic masterpiece of perfectly curated sound.
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vd5 is a deliberate, serious and unflinching album, with sporadic moments of tempestuous, mocking color.
After a run of similar-sounding introspective records molded primarily by Def Jam’s concerns about keeping him hip hop, Cry Baby marks a breakaway from the norm for Vince Staples. It may not be punk, ...
