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Objet d'Art

Art as object: why humans will always value physical manifestations of music
The Catch Up

Delirious pop nonsense: The New Pornographers' Brill Bruisers
Essential 80s

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
The Catch Up

Grand Piano is Phone Booth in a concert hall
Source Material

Nicki Minaj beats the music industry at its own sexist game with “Anaconda”
The Shop Around the Corner

October 2014 Home Video Picks
The Catch Up

Sampling as social commentary: Lotic's Damsels in Distress
Dispatches

Delicious noise: the rise of bubblegum bass
Source Material

John Ridley's adaptation renders 12 Years a Slave powerful but palatable for modern audiences
Source Material

Gobby pitchfucks a Nick Drake classic into a demented freak-funk nightmare
The World on War

In Which We Serve
Overlooked Hotel

Local Hero (1983)
The Catch Up

Total Control come of age with Typical System
Essential 80s

Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring (1985)
Overlooked Hotel

Another Earth
The World on War

Closely Watched Trains imagines Czechoslovakia's social and sexual liberation during German occupation
Emotional Resonance

Sex, drugs and shoegaze collide in one evolving teenage mind
Objet d'Art

Riding uphill: the shifting symbolism of Wadjda's bicycle