The modern city is a cold and desolate place when Daylight Savings Time ends. 3PM signals monochrome twilight and 5PM means the stuffy orange glow of city streetlights. Fall is here, Winter is nigh. God save your soul. Iggy Pop’s album The Idiot is an exercise in this urban ultramodern dread. It takes the glamor [...]
David Bowie – Low
25 September 2010 by Leave a Comment
It seems simple when you look at first. It’ll even seem simple after you’ve seen it a thousand times. But this album cover of David Bowie’s Low is one of those specimens that points to the music in a very simple way, but also directs the mind to the artist himself. Futurism. Apocalypse. Loneliness. Detainment. [...]
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