Despite his use of the stock imagery of surrealism – religious and sexual iconography, eyeballs, body parts and knives – Vaughan Oliver, who has died aged 62, was a remarkably…
Category: Music
Documenting the Gorillaz
Directed by Denholm Hewlett (son of Gorillaz’s Jamie Hewlett), a new documentary about the world’s most famous ‘virtual band’ is a brilliant mishmash of the real and the imagined. We…
The Year in Music
As society’s tensions with technology and identity continue to rage, figures in the music industry tackled them with an open mind, making 2019 a year of great complexity but even…
The best record sleeves of 2019
We might be living in a post-album era but there are still a wealth of great album covers to be found in 2019. Granted, most of us now interact with…