St. Vincent has opened up about her follow-up to 2021’s Daddy’s Home, and it sure sounds interesting. In a new interview with Mojo magazine, the artist born Annie Clark said her new album is “darker and harder” than her most recent project and described its sound as “urgent and psychotic.”
Clark self-produced the album and recorded it at her own Compound Fracture studio in LA, New York’s Electric Lady, and Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago. “I needed to go deeper in finding my own sonic vocabulary,” she said about the experience. “I like to think of [the record] as post-plague pop, it’s a lot about heaven and hell — the metaphorical kinds. Which is appropriate, because sitting alone in a studio for that many hours I would say is a version of hell.”
She added that the album is filled with “lots of guitars” alongside ’70s and ’80s analog synths.
Clark self-produced the album and recorded it at her own Compound Fracture studio in LA, New York’s Electric Lady, and Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago. “I needed to go deeper in finding my own sonic vocabulary,” she said about the experience. “I like to think of [the record] as post-plague pop, it’s a lot about heaven and hell — the metaphorical kinds. Which is appropriate, because sitting alone in a studio for that many hours I would say is a version of hell.”
She added that the album is filled with “lots of guitars” alongside ’70s and ’80s analog synths.
- 2/16/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Portishead singer Beth Gibbons has officially announced her long-awaited debut solo album.
Set to premiere on May 17th via Domino, Lives Outgrown was produced by Gibbons with James Ford, and features 10 new tracks recorded over the course of the past decade. In a new press release, Gibbons touched on the album’s themes of motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality.
“People started dying,” Gibbons said. “When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out. You think, ‘We’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better.’ Some endings are hard to digest… I realized what life was like with no hope, and that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do.
Set to premiere on May 17th via Domino, Lives Outgrown was produced by Gibbons with James Ford, and features 10 new tracks recorded over the course of the past decade. In a new press release, Gibbons touched on the album’s themes of motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality.
“People started dying,” Gibbons said. “When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out. You think, ‘We’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better.’ Some endings are hard to digest… I realized what life was like with no hope, and that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do.
- 2/7/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
David Fincher’s “The Killer” is taking his shot.
The latest from the filmmaker behind macabre masterpieces like “Seven,” “Zodiac” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” follows an unnamed assassin (Michael Fassbender) after a hit goes wrong. If you screw up at work, maybe you send an apologetic email or try and pretend like it never happened. If you’re the titular killer, you set out on a roaring rampage of revenge, crisscrossing the globe as you attempt to (bloodily) tie up loose ends.
But that’s not to say that you can’t enjoy what you do. And one of the things that makes Fassbender’s murderer stand out is that he makes mix tapes for his assassinations, with a particular fondness for The Smiths, who become the sort of Simon and Garfunkel for the world of “The Killer.”
“I always knew that I wanted to use ‘How Soon is Now?...
The latest from the filmmaker behind macabre masterpieces like “Seven,” “Zodiac” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” follows an unnamed assassin (Michael Fassbender) after a hit goes wrong. If you screw up at work, maybe you send an apologetic email or try and pretend like it never happened. If you’re the titular killer, you set out on a roaring rampage of revenge, crisscrossing the globe as you attempt to (bloodily) tie up loose ends.
But that’s not to say that you can’t enjoy what you do. And one of the things that makes Fassbender’s murderer stand out is that he makes mix tapes for his assassinations, with a particular fondness for The Smiths, who become the sort of Simon and Garfunkel for the world of “The Killer.”
“I always knew that I wanted to use ‘How Soon is Now?...
- 11/1/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Jennifer Lopez may be singlehandedly able to revive the rom-com, but she’s here to remind us she can carry other blockbuster genres: The crime thriller. It’s been awhile since Lopez set her sights on a high-stakes action drama (as she did in Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 hit “Out of Sight”), but clearly she hasn’t forgotten her combat training. Deadly serious with a killer instinct, she is hardly maternal in “The Mother,” a tense thriller about a sharpshooter who must give up her child and go into hiding after double crossing two nefarious exes.
Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Niki Caro, “The Mother” sees two business-savvy women making a mark on the most masculine of genres — and pulling no punches. While it’s far from groundbreaking, “The Mother” is a satisfying nail-biter grounded in a genuine (albeit familiar) emotional setup. Besides, we’ve seen enough violent thrillers about lone wolf...
Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Niki Caro, “The Mother” sees two business-savvy women making a mark on the most masculine of genres — and pulling no punches. While it’s far from groundbreaking, “The Mother” is a satisfying nail-biter grounded in a genuine (albeit familiar) emotional setup. Besides, we’ve seen enough violent thrillers about lone wolf...
- 5/12/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Nearly 125 years after her assassination, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria — or Sisi to her enduring cultists — continues to inspire a veritable industry of portraiture in Europe: In the last year alone, a novel, two TV series (one of them a glossy Netflix affair) and two feature films have been dedicated to the tightly corseted royal icon. Viewers outside the Continental sphere of Sisi-mania may only have registered one of those films, Marie Kreutzer’s chic, subversive anti-biopic “Corsage,” which might make the second, German director Frauke Finsterwalder’s lush, irreverent “Sisi & I,” seem to them a too-soon spare — coincidentally repeating several tricks from Kreutzer’s anachronistic playbook with its modern feminist inflections, contemporary soundtrack cues and sensational fashions, albeit with plenty of its own panache.
That unfortunate timing, combined with the absence of a Vicky Krieps-style crossover arthouse star, may cost “Sisi & I” some distributor interest outside...
That unfortunate timing, combined with the absence of a Vicky Krieps-style crossover arthouse star, may cost “Sisi & I” some distributor interest outside...
- 3/12/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
St. Vincent delivered a faithful rendition of David Bowie’s “Young Americans” as part of Thursday’s Love Rocks NYC benefit, an all-star concert staged at New York’s Beacon Theater to benefit God’s Love We Deliver.
Backed by a massive band that included backup singers and a horn section, Annie Clark echoed blue-eyed soul-era Bowie, working the crowd and singing with a very Thin White Duke inflection.
St. Vincent’s appearance came one night after she covered Portishead’s “Glory Box” alongside the Roots on The Tonight Show.
Backed by a massive band that included backup singers and a horn section, Annie Clark echoed blue-eyed soul-era Bowie, working the crowd and singing with a very Thin White Duke inflection.
St. Vincent’s appearance came one night after she covered Portishead’s “Glory Box” alongside the Roots on The Tonight Show.
- 3/10/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Hardly 24 hours after she teamed up with The Roots for a killer cover of Portishead’s “Glory Box” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, St. Vincent took on David Bowie’s “Young Americans” Thursday night during the star-studded Love Rocks NYC benefit concert at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.
The night was a whole a who’s-who of performers: James Taylor, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Warren Haynes, the John Mayer Trio, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Clark Jr., Jim James, Ledisi, Allison Russell, The War and Treaty, and former Yankee Bernie Williams all took the stage throughout the evening.
Aside from St. Vincent, a few standout performances include Benatar doing “Love Is a Battlefield,” Taylor singing “How Sweet It Is,” Staples dusting off Staple Singers’ “Respect Yourself,” and Russell honoring the late Christine McVie with a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop.” St. Vincent...
The night was a whole a who’s-who of performers: James Taylor, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Warren Haynes, the John Mayer Trio, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Clark Jr., Jim James, Ledisi, Allison Russell, The War and Treaty, and former Yankee Bernie Williams all took the stage throughout the evening.
Aside from St. Vincent, a few standout performances include Benatar doing “Love Is a Battlefield,” Taylor singing “How Sweet It Is,” Staples dusting off Staple Singers’ “Respect Yourself,” and Russell honoring the late Christine McVie with a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop.” St. Vincent...
- 3/10/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon had a pretty stellar musical moment last night when St. Vincent teamed up with house band The Roots to cover Portishead’s classic “Glory Box.” Watch the performance below.
Covering a song as unforgettable as “Glory Box” is certainly no easy task, but St. Vincent does Portishead justice with her faithful rendition. She doesn’t do too much to tweak the source material — why mess with perfection? — but the sultry sheen and electric guitar flourishes are right up St. Vincent’s alley. If you weren’t already convinced Portishead were ahead of their time, here’s some more proof.
“Glory Box” appears on Portishead’s 1994 debut album Dummy. The trip-hop pioneers have been largely defunct for the last decade, but they reunited last year to perform at a Ukraine benefit concert alongside Idles, Katy J Pearson, and Heavy Lungs.
St. Vincent loves a cover.
Covering a song as unforgettable as “Glory Box” is certainly no easy task, but St. Vincent does Portishead justice with her faithful rendition. She doesn’t do too much to tweak the source material — why mess with perfection? — but the sultry sheen and electric guitar flourishes are right up St. Vincent’s alley. If you weren’t already convinced Portishead were ahead of their time, here’s some more proof.
“Glory Box” appears on Portishead’s 1994 debut album Dummy. The trip-hop pioneers have been largely defunct for the last decade, but they reunited last year to perform at a Ukraine benefit concert alongside Idles, Katy J Pearson, and Heavy Lungs.
St. Vincent loves a cover.
- 3/9/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
The “Wap” revolution, it appears, has reached the folkies. Over two albums of sublime folk and glowering atmospheric rock – 2016’s Don’t Let the Kids Win and 2019’s Crushing – Melbourne-via-Blue Mountains singer Julia Jacklin made a name for herself as not just an imaginative songwriter, but as a frank and forthright lyricist, tackling topics such as revenge porn and sexuality crises. Her third album Pre Pleasure, recorded in Montreal with The National producer Marcus Paquin, further embraces the ideal that openness in modern songwriting should extend far beyond the emotional into all aspects of the female psyche.
Alongside songs of love, religion, self-doubt, family and lost friendship, then, Jacklin sings of bedroom role-playing a sexy magician “naked beneath the cape”, and of watching porn to try (and fail) to turn herself on. Thanks to the likes of Peaches, St Vincent, Khia, Cardi B and now Jacklin, overt sex in music,...
Alongside songs of love, religion, self-doubt, family and lost friendship, then, Jacklin sings of bedroom role-playing a sexy magician “naked beneath the cape”, and of watching porn to try (and fail) to turn herself on. Thanks to the likes of Peaches, St Vincent, Khia, Cardi B and now Jacklin, overt sex in music,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Mark Beaumont
- The Independent - Music
With U.K. dream-pop pioneers Cocteau Twins, singer Elizabeth Fraser’s appeal had more to do with the way she projected raw emotions (joy, worry, uneasiness) than the songs she sang. Instead of attempting poetry, she sang in tongues, shaping her feelings with crude but often beautiful vocal sounds, and a few occasional words in English, which entwined themselves around her bandmates Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde’s fantasias. (Did she really say “silly, silly saliva”?) You didn’t listen to Cocteau Twins so much as you felt them. Fraser...
- 6/20/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Radiohead’s Ok Computer doesn’t turn 25 for another month in the U.K. — and not until July in the U.S. — but guitarist Ed O’Brien commemorated the album in an Instagram post anyway.
O’Brien was inspired to celebrate after seeing BBC Radio 6 Music’s post about the album (and technically, it turns 25 today in Japan). “A few thoughts in no particular order,” he began. “Feels like an age away. 1997 belonged to a different era. We were just kids with unswerving focus and drive. No partying, just...
O’Brien was inspired to celebrate after seeing BBC Radio 6 Music’s post about the album (and technically, it turns 25 today in Japan). “A few thoughts in no particular order,” he began. “Feels like an age away. 1997 belonged to a different era. We were just kids with unswerving focus and drive. No partying, just...
- 5/20/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
After a long five-year absence, Kendrick Lamar has finally returned. Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers is the kind of dense, complex, contradictory, and thrilling journey into the mind of Pulitzer Kenny that we’ve been waiting for. With more than 70 minutes of music, there’s plenty here to process, enjoy, and debate. Our full review is on its way. In the meantime, here are five observations from a long night of deep listening.
1. Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers Is a Double Album … Sort Of
While formatted like a double album,...
1. Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers Is a Double Album … Sort Of
While formatted like a double album,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
2021 has seen its share of albums in which major artists meet huge expectations with supersize tracklists — records like Drake’s 86-minute Certified Lover Boy and Kanye West’s punishingly enormous Donda. Now you can add Alicia Keys to the list of A-list epic-makers. Keys, her eighth album, is a 26-song double-lp. But Alicia has never been one for self-indulgence, so she’s neatly divvied the project up into two distinct, easily digestible collections: Originals is, as she puts it, a set of “laidback piano vibes,” while almost all of its...
- 12/10/2021
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Amazon Studios has announced that it will co-produce BBC psychological thriller Chloe, and the six-part series has set a cast that includes The Crown star Erin Doherty.
Produced by Mam Tor Productions, run by former Cuba Pictures cofounder Tally Garner, Chloe was originally announced by the BBC in February 2020 and is created and written by Sex Education director Alice Seabright.
It centers on the character of Becky, who becomes obsessed with the death of her estranged friend Chloe. Becky assumes a new identity to infiltrate the enviable lives of Chloe’s closest friends as she attempts to establish what happened.
Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected “someone” with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the “no one” she is as Becky. However, the pretense soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely.
Doherty, who...
Produced by Mam Tor Productions, run by former Cuba Pictures cofounder Tally Garner, Chloe was originally announced by the BBC in February 2020 and is created and written by Sex Education director Alice Seabright.
It centers on the character of Becky, who becomes obsessed with the death of her estranged friend Chloe. Becky assumes a new identity to infiltrate the enviable lives of Chloe’s closest friends as she attempts to establish what happened.
Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected “someone” with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the “no one” she is as Becky. However, the pretense soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely.
Doherty, who...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Never doubt a documentary filmmaker’s propensity to eke out the narrowest of niches. We’ve had films on spelling bees and İstanbullu kitties, but the latest comes to us from Japan, via France, and the story of the unlikely heroes of the 1964 Japanese Women’s Olympic volleyball team––and their still less likely second act in the world of anime. The Witches of the Orient offers some flare to go with that intriguing duality: a stylish structure in which footage of the team’s greatest feats are intercut with corresponding animations from the TV shows they later inspired.
Parisian filmmaker Julien Faraut is no stranger to this kind of ideas-filled archival work, having breathed fresh life into a different pile of footage, and a different temperament of sporting heroism, with In The Realm of Perfection in 2018––a rough gem about the tennis player John McEnroe and his defining loss at the 1984 French Open.
Parisian filmmaker Julien Faraut is no stranger to this kind of ideas-filled archival work, having breathed fresh life into a different pile of footage, and a different temperament of sporting heroism, with In The Realm of Perfection in 2018––a rough gem about the tennis player John McEnroe and his defining loss at the 1984 French Open.
- 2/22/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers.
Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4
Two of the more curious aspects of Snowpiercer is the fact that there’s a cabaret/bar/talk therapy center called the Night Car and that the tea room has become the de-facto church for anyone on board the train who still has faith in some sort of higher power. The need for religious services and entertainment is a known factor, but the fact that both the Night Car and the Tea Room serve more as locations for counseling than their original locations is interesting, to say the least. Like everything else on Snowpiercer, adaptations have been made during the time the train’s been rolling across the frozen world, and the Snowpiercer that Mr. Wilford enters into for the celebration of science is much different than the one he’d envisioned.
The biggest thing that Snowpiercer did with the introduction of Mr.
Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4
Two of the more curious aspects of Snowpiercer is the fact that there’s a cabaret/bar/talk therapy center called the Night Car and that the tea room has become the de-facto church for anyone on board the train who still has faith in some sort of higher power. The need for religious services and entertainment is a known factor, but the fact that both the Night Car and the Tea Room serve more as locations for counseling than their original locations is interesting, to say the least. Like everything else on Snowpiercer, adaptations have been made during the time the train’s been rolling across the frozen world, and the Snowpiercer that Mr. Wilford enters into for the celebration of science is much different than the one he’d envisioned.
The biggest thing that Snowpiercer did with the introduction of Mr.
- 2/16/2021
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
A new Leon Bridges song will premiere in the final episode of Season 2 of HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and be featured on the second soundtrack for the series.
“He had great timing,” says music supervisor Simon Astall. “We got this demo for a song that’s going to be on his next album and it worked in episode seven.”
Titled “That Was Yesterday,” its placement is part of the producers’ use of songs and specific artists as a connective tissue from season to season and even episode to episode. It’s the music of Charles Bradley and Ann Pebbles, the sound of Janis Joplin, and songs such as Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” that work their way into multiple episodes. Sunday night’s episode closed with a show-commissioned cover of Timmy Thomas’ “Why Can’t We Live Together” by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James...
“He had great timing,” says music supervisor Simon Astall. “We got this demo for a song that’s going to be on his next album and it worked in episode seven.”
Titled “That Was Yesterday,” its placement is part of the producers’ use of songs and specific artists as a connective tissue from season to season and even episode to episode. It’s the music of Charles Bradley and Ann Pebbles, the sound of Janis Joplin, and songs such as Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” that work their way into multiple episodes. Sunday night’s episode closed with a show-commissioned cover of Timmy Thomas’ “Why Can’t We Live Together” by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James...
- 7/1/2019
- by Phil Gallo
- Variety Film + TV
In 2014, Sharon Van Etten released Are We There, which Rolling Stone gave four stars, saying it grew the singer-songwriter’s “trademark examinations of romantic decay to cathedral-like scale.” Contributing editor Rob Sheffield still calls it “one of the great albums of the century.”
But just a year after its release, Van Etten pretty much disappeared from music. In the new installment of our Morning Sessions interview series that took place during the first weekend of Acl Fest on October 6th at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin, she tells Sheffield what she’s been up to.
But just a year after its release, Van Etten pretty much disappeared from music. In the new installment of our Morning Sessions interview series that took place during the first weekend of Acl Fest on October 6th at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin, she tells Sheffield what she’s been up to.
- 10/13/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
In the macho world of superstar DJs (and irate presidents), Twitter is the battleground, the premier forum for airing grievances about the competition. Case in point: In March of 2016, Diplo – who made $23 million that year, according to Forbes – decided that another producer, Zedd ($24 million) had plagiarized the work of the young Australian beat-maker Flume. So Diplo took aim on social media and let fly: "[You’re] young and rich and a great musician … Use that to your advantage … Don't be such a pompous cornball loser also I fucked your girl."
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- 8/1/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Daily Dead is proud to debut the music video for “Ratimis,” the title track from the full-length album by electronic artist Brahm, available beginning today from Swedish Columbia Records. Directed by cult filmmaker Damon Packard, a lifelong independent director known for movies like Reflections of Evil and Foxfur, the “Ratimis” video is comprised of clips from a number of horror films all set to the pulsing electronic score of Brahm's music.
Brahm (aka Chaz Barber), a lifelong fan of horror, exploitation, and genre films, incorporates his passion for cinema into his songs in ways that are both understated and overt, but always unique. “Whenever I work on music, there is always a film, TV show, scene, score from a film, or even some simple bit of TV nostalgia that I remember seeing as a kid,” Barber says. “I always attempt to create some kind of visual through my songs and...
Brahm (aka Chaz Barber), a lifelong fan of horror, exploitation, and genre films, incorporates his passion for cinema into his songs in ways that are both understated and overt, but always unique. “Whenever I work on music, there is always a film, TV show, scene, score from a film, or even some simple bit of TV nostalgia that I remember seeing as a kid,” Barber says. “I always attempt to create some kind of visual through my songs and...
- 2/24/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Chilling cover of pop hit from British psychodrama High-rise is finally released. When we interviewed master British filmmaker Ben Wheatley about his mesmerizing J.G. Ballard adaptation High-rise, we discussed one of its most alarming elements, a final reel cover version of Abba’s immortal pop hit “S.O.S.” realized by influential trip-hop/electronic music band Portishead. That track…
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- 6/24/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Playing now in theatres, on Demand, on Amazon Video and on iTunes, watch Portishead’s music video cover of Abba’s ‘Sos’ as heard in High-rise.
High-rise is the latest film by cult British director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England), an ambitious adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name.
The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
High-rise stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class.
Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal (Irons), the enigmatic architect who designed the building.
Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing.
High-rise is the latest film by cult British director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England), an ambitious adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name.
The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
High-rise stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class.
Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal (Irons), the enigmatic architect who designed the building.
Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing.
- 6/24/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Say what you want about Ben Wheatley's divisive film High Rise, but having Portishead's cover of the Abba song S.O.S. on its soundtrack was a stroke of brilliance. The first song Portishead has recorded in over seven years, its inclusion and use in the film was quite a shock. Also, all parties involved agreed that the song would be used for the film's soundtrack only, and not become a separate release. Uploaded versions on networks like YouTube were vigilantly hunted and taken down. That changed yesterday, as those same parties agreed to release the song in memory of British Member of Parliament Jo Cox, who was murdered last week while campaigning. Today, there is a referendum in the United Kingdom about whether they should remain...
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- 6/23/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Director Ben Wheatley’s latest feature, High-Rise is a complex dystopian adaptation of J.G. Ballard, brimming with sex, cigarettes, and some killer music numbers (read our review). One particularly memorable sequence features Portishead‘s cover of Abba’s “Sos,” which was previously only available if you watched the film, but has now been given a music video.
The black and white one-take steadily pushes in on singer Beth Gibbons, seated in an all-black room with her head down. The sporadic beat is contained by her even, somber vocal delivery and the song’s deep synth tones that make for a captivating listen. The video adds another dimension to the song, with flashes of light turning Gibbons’ face into a haunting mask before returning to normalcy. In its final moments, quotes Jo Cox, a British Labour Party politician who was murdered last week.
See the video below, along with our discussion of High-Rise,...
The black and white one-take steadily pushes in on singer Beth Gibbons, seated in an all-black room with her head down. The sporadic beat is contained by her even, somber vocal delivery and the song’s deep synth tones that make for a captivating listen. The video adds another dimension to the song, with flashes of light turning Gibbons’ face into a haunting mask before returning to normalcy. In its final moments, quotes Jo Cox, a British Labour Party politician who was murdered last week.
See the video below, along with our discussion of High-Rise,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, Wild follows along as Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) suddenly decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, more than a thousand miles of rough territory, all by herself.
The intensely personal story is well-suited to Witherspoon, and gets a lot of its power by way of director Jean-Marc Vallée and his ability to frame a scene, and work a conversation to its best emotional effect, in much the way he managed in Dallas Buyers Club‘s more subdued scenes.
The film is about as straight-forward, and difficult to relate, as Eat Pray Love. In this case, Strayed adds a level of difficulty, and perhaps stupidity, to her journey by tackling something she isn’t prepared for, but the “life-altering journey” is the same.
The film kicks off on the middle of the road, and then dances through various pasts – on the trail, through the drug use and failed marriage,...
The intensely personal story is well-suited to Witherspoon, and gets a lot of its power by way of director Jean-Marc Vallée and his ability to frame a scene, and work a conversation to its best emotional effect, in much the way he managed in Dallas Buyers Club‘s more subdued scenes.
The film is about as straight-forward, and difficult to relate, as Eat Pray Love. In this case, Strayed adds a level of difficulty, and perhaps stupidity, to her journey by tackling something she isn’t prepared for, but the “life-altering journey” is the same.
The film kicks off on the middle of the road, and then dances through various pasts – on the trail, through the drug use and failed marriage,...
- 4/7/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Canada has a wealth of cinematic talent, and always has. From our comedic genius to our often cerebral approach to filmmaking, this country has a lot to be proud of.
Of late, and especially this year, Canada has really dominated the movies landscape. Our homegrown actors (Sarah Gadon, for example) and directors (Xavier Dolan, "Mommy") have been everywhere, earning accolades around the world. Movies shot within our borders have won rave reviews and received praise from the highest-ranked critics and film festivals.
Perhaps most outstanding is our growth. No longer are we satisfied with melancholic snow landscapes (though sometimes those still appear); we've branched out, and we're trying new things. Here, in no particular order, are my favourite Canadian movies and moments of 2014.
"Mommy" Knocked Our Socks Off
Young Canadian director Xavier Dolan has been getting accolades from critics, pundits and moviegoers from a very young age, so it's no...
Of late, and especially this year, Canada has really dominated the movies landscape. Our homegrown actors (Sarah Gadon, for example) and directors (Xavier Dolan, "Mommy") have been everywhere, earning accolades around the world. Movies shot within our borders have won rave reviews and received praise from the highest-ranked critics and film festivals.
Perhaps most outstanding is our growth. No longer are we satisfied with melancholic snow landscapes (though sometimes those still appear); we've branched out, and we're trying new things. Here, in no particular order, are my favourite Canadian movies and moments of 2014.
"Mommy" Knocked Our Socks Off
Young Canadian director Xavier Dolan has been getting accolades from critics, pundits and moviegoers from a very young age, so it's no...
- 12/22/2014
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
Ryan Lambie Mar 11, 2019
Another 25 unsung greats come under the spotlight, as we look at the underrated movies of 1995.
The year covered in this underrated movie rundown was significant for a number of reasons. It was the year that saw the release of Toy Story--the groundbreaking movie that would cement Pixar's reputation as an animation studio, and set the tempo for CG family movies for the next 23 years and counting. It was the year that saw James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan for the first time) emerge for GoldenEye after a six-year break. It was also the year of Michael Mann's Heat, and the moment where Terry Gilliam scored a much-deserved hit with 12 Monkeys. Plus it was the year Mel Gibson's Braveheart had a battle cry of freedom that reverberated all the way to the Oscar stage.
As ever, we're focusing on a few of the...
Another 25 unsung greats come under the spotlight, as we look at the underrated movies of 1995.
The year covered in this underrated movie rundown was significant for a number of reasons. It was the year that saw the release of Toy Story--the groundbreaking movie that would cement Pixar's reputation as an animation studio, and set the tempo for CG family movies for the next 23 years and counting. It was the year that saw James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan for the first time) emerge for GoldenEye after a six-year break. It was also the year of Michael Mann's Heat, and the moment where Terry Gilliam scored a much-deserved hit with 12 Monkeys. Plus it was the year Mel Gibson's Braveheart had a battle cry of freedom that reverberated all the way to the Oscar stage.
As ever, we're focusing on a few of the...
- 10/24/2013
- Den of Geek
Now that Radiohead has decided to start promoting their latest album, "The King of Limbs," they're taking New York, and American TV, by storm. Following this weekend's performance on the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live," the British rock innovators took their jittery, post-millennial sounds to Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" on Monday. There, host (and alleged super-fan) Stephen Colbert allowed the group -- expanded to a sextet with Portishead drummer Clive Deamer adding a second layer of percussion -- to tape six songs. Colbert took jabs at the band's self-conscious anti-corporate stance, inviting them into the "Dr....
- 9/27/2011
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
The beginning of the weeks starts with Saturday, at least this week when it comes to Radiohead. The British band took the stage this weekend as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," the first of four major New York events for the group. Thom Yorke wiggled his way through "Lotus Flower" from "The King of Limbs" and non-album track "Staircase" on the longstanding variety show. Portishead drummer Clive Deamer was on hand for both performances. Deamer made his television debut with the band in June, when they taped a performance for Nigel Godrich's "Live from the Basement" in London. There's...
- 9/26/2011
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
As Pitchfork pointed out this weekend, Radiohead played Saturday Night Live this weekend. You can watch their two performances, The King of Limbs’ “Lotus Flower” and “Staircase” below. “Staircase” made its debut on the Nigel Godrich’s “From the Basement” series. Portishead’s drummer, Clive Deamer, joined them for the performances. The video was made available through the Audio Perv. You can also see the performances and the band’s promo reel below.
- 9/26/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Announcing their first time in 13 years, Portishead will be touring the states and the territories north and south thereof. Kicking it off on October 1st in Asbury Park, New Jersey at the All Tomorrow's Parties presentation, the tour will run for just a month and end in Denver. The talent lineup for the tour includes the regulars Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley along with Jim Barr (bass), Clive Deamer (drums), and John Baggott (keyboards).
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- 7/11/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
By Zachary Swickey
Riding high on the overwhelming critical success of their self-titled sophomore release, Bon Iver are set to curate a new music festival in Paris this fall. The Chicago-based Pitchfork Music Festival is expanding overseas and asked Bon Iver to help curate the event. Seems rather fitting for singer Justin Vernon’s falsetto coo to swoon audiences in the city of love.
Vernon and his bandmates will play the La Grande Hall in the French capital as the main headliner on October 29 with Cut Copy, Kathleen Edwards and Pantha du Prince in tow and more artists expected to be announced.
Bon Iver is the latest artist to curate a music festival, a growing trend as the number of stateside festivals surges. In the last year alone, Wilco, Portishead and Animal Collective have all worked to select bands for various festivals. And, of course, there’s Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction,...
Riding high on the overwhelming critical success of their self-titled sophomore release, Bon Iver are set to curate a new music festival in Paris this fall. The Chicago-based Pitchfork Music Festival is expanding overseas and asked Bon Iver to help curate the event. Seems rather fitting for singer Justin Vernon’s falsetto coo to swoon audiences in the city of love.
Vernon and his bandmates will play the La Grande Hall in the French capital as the main headliner on October 29 with Cut Copy, Kathleen Edwards and Pantha du Prince in tow and more artists expected to be announced.
Bon Iver is the latest artist to curate a music festival, a growing trend as the number of stateside festivals surges. In the last year alone, Wilco, Portishead and Animal Collective have all worked to select bands for various festivals. And, of course, there’s Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction,...
- 7/6/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
For reasons even I don't entirely understand, I have been reading a lot of old issues of Spin magazine recently. Most of the best issues in my personal archive (which is vast, by the way — a combination of issues I kept and ones I acquired when I worked at Spin from 2004 to 2007) are from 1996, 1997 and 1998. It's the '97 issues that most blow my mind, as they are filled cover to cover with the last gasp of the grunge era, lots of coverage about how Diddy was killing hip-hop and, perhaps most importantly, a full-court press over the electronica revolution that was supposedly in the process of changing the way we listen to rock music (especially in the "alternative" universe).
A bit of context: After grunge fell apart in the wake of Kurt Cobain's suicide, record executives, trendspotting fans and music writers were desperately digging around for the next big thing in the rock world.
A bit of context: After grunge fell apart in the wake of Kurt Cobain's suicide, record executives, trendspotting fans and music writers were desperately digging around for the next big thing in the rock world.
- 10/21/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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