Kat Lister
Reviews
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief
Reviews
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief
Books
Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf
As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
Books
Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf
As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
A Quietus Interview
The Moments of Rupture: Andy Abbott on Composing Music for Psychiatric Wards
Andy Abbott speaks to Kat Lister his new album as ADRA, born from his work as a creative practitioner on psychiatric wards, how working with service users challenged preconceptions about who experimental music is 'for', and how it's changed his own creative philosophy moving forward
A Quietus Interview
The Moments of Rupture: Andy Abbott on Composing Music for Psychiatric Wards
Andy Abbott speaks to Kat Lister his new album as ADRA, born from his work as a creative practitioner on psychiatric wards, how working with service users challenged preconceptions about who experimental music is 'for', and how it's changed his own creative philosophy moving forward
Black Sky Thinking
The Real Surreal: On the Road in the USA with a Polaroid Camera
Kat Lister hits the road in the footsteps of Wim Wenders, travelling from Brooklyn to North Carolina, in search of the meaning of instant photography, looking for answers about the transience of life and the ephemerality of art
Black Sky Thinking
The Real Surreal: On the Road in the USA with a Polaroid Camera
Kat Lister hits the road in the footsteps of Wim Wenders, travelling from Brooklyn to North Carolina, in search of the meaning of instant photography, looking for answers about the transience of life and the ephemerality of art
Low Culture Essay
A Kind Of Music: Kat Lister On The Olivetti Typewriter
In our monthly subscribers only essay, Kat Lister discusses how finishing her first book and a year of being locked down alone steered her towards buying a typewriter, only to discover these machines are going through something of a reversal of fortunes. Homepage photograph: the author's portrait of her own Olivetti Valentine
Low Culture Essay
A Kind Of Music: Kat Lister On The Olivetti Typewriter
In our monthly subscribers only essay, Kat Lister discusses how finishing her first book and a year of being locked down alone steered her towards buying a typewriter, only to discover these machines are going through something of a reversal of fortunes. Homepage photograph: the author's portrait of her own Olivetti Valentine
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Black Sky Thinking
TikTokin’ in the Freed World: Social Media’s New Payola Scandal
The scandal of artists paying DJs for radio plays might seem a relic of the past but, says music biz expert Eamonn Forde, news that influencers might demand a percentage of artist royalties in return for exposure gives this corruption a grim contemporary twist
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical on Mstislav Rostropovich: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Fifty years ago, the Proms became the scene of a protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It was a night of high drama, says Phil Hebblethwaite, defined by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich giving a performance that has gone down in legend
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Dance Music For February, Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel
Hyperspecific is back with the first instalment from our new columnist Jaša Bužinel, bringing you a selection of exciting new releases from Kode9, Autechre, Rian Treanor, Venus Ex Machina, Pauline Anna Strom and Giant Swan, among others
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Tristan Bath
From the 'uniquely identifiable sonic fingerprint of Elvin Brandhi to the double bass and field recordings improv of Imanishi and Serrato via Massimo Pupillo's debut solo album, here are the cream of this month's cassette crop reviewed by Tristan Bath
