The thing you’ll always hear about Bowie is that he’s a shapeshifter. An artist whose style and practice hardly ever stayed in one place. It’s a state of mind he perhaps shares with some of history’s most famous figures — Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso included. It’s definitely not my place to say that [...]
Iggy Pop – The Idiot
12 November 2010 by 6 Comments
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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