The Cure – Faith

The Cure is a confusing group to parse. They’ve always had a reputation for being all gloom and doom — an aesthetic likely informed by Robert Smith‘s black dandelion haircut and mousey stage persona — but the span of their career has been eclectic to say the least. Their first albums, for example, were filled [...]

Cold Cave – Love Comes Close

If you’ve ever been to a dark, and perhaps questionable, club, you’ve no doubt seen this scene.  Androgyny embodied, checking his/her eyeliner in the wings of an equally questionable restroom.  The artwork in these restrooms is usually like an amplified version of the feel of the venue, as if it functions as the shit-stained, bleeding/beating [...]

Low – Long Division

I was high as a kite but the guy next to me was higher.  I weaved in and out of neighborhoods and got the feeling that I was looking for something I couldn’t name.  Whatever it was, it needed the music to be on and loud.  The night sky was bleached with a blanket of [...]