Meemo Comma

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Anime Mundi: Meemo Comma’s Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²

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Lara Rix-Martin on The Heavy Existentialism of Soviet Sci-fi

Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction

A Quietus Interview

Peer Reviewed: Mike Paradinas Interviews Lara Rix Martin… & Vice Versa

For the latest instalment of our series that sees some of our favourite musicians interview one another without editorial interference, this month the subjects are Lara Rix-Martin and Mike Paradinas

Baker's Dozen

Zoning Out: Meemo Comma’s Favourite Albums

From Pan Daijing and Destiny's Child to Kate Bush and Venetian Snares, Lara Rix-Martin, AKA Meemo Comma, discusses 13 of her favourite albums, as well as her new album on Planet Mu, 'Sleepmoss'

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This October

Bed into autumn with these wonderful records from Richard Dawson, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Joy Orbison, Kim Gordon and more

A Quietus Interview

Pain, Sorrow And Baked Beans: An Interview With Meemo Comma

Following the release of her first full length album (and first under new alias Meemo Comma), Mollie Zhang catches up with Lara Rix-Martin

Previously Read

Film

“One Last Midnight”: Why You Should Be Watching True Detective

Sean Kitching urges those currently in the dark to immerse themselves in the even darker and check out True Detective, currently showing in the UK on Sky Atlantic. Contains mild spoilers

Film

Scientology Fiction? The Master Reviewed

Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16

Film

A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

On the fortieth anniversary of the death of Alfred Hitchcock and under Coronoavirus lockdown, Adam Scovell finds new meaning in the filmmaker's use of confinement and enclosed spaces

Film

Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story

Director David Lowery's latest film, A Ghost Story, is a subtle and moving examination of all the big questions. Mat Colegate sat down to ask him some slightly smaller ones.

Black Sky Thinking

Addicted To Plastic? Eco-Vinyl And The Impact Of Our Listening Habits

As vinyl is now set to outsell CDs in the UK serious questions have been asked about the sustainability of this environment destroying format. However, says Jono Podmore, there is a greener alternative

Books

The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis

In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory

Film

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Meemo Comma Decimation of I

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Anime Mundi: Meemo Comma’s Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²

Articles 5

Lara Rix-Martin on The Heavy Existentialism of Soviet Sci-fi

Peer Reviewed: Mike Paradinas Interviews Lara Rix Martin… & Vice Versa

Zoning Out: Meemo Comma’s Favourite Albums

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This October

Pain, Sorrow And Baked Beans: An Interview With Meemo Comma

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