Reviews


Black Math | Blood Sweat Sparkles

Black Math gloriously revel in not reinventing the wheel. Screamo, punk, rock n roll grunge, youth, whatever, attacked with gusto. Don't let the word Math fool you into thinking this is prog-rock. It's fucking progressive though. Blood, Sweat, Sparkles plunges onwards with relentless disregard.


The Polygamist (Netflix)

Sometimes trash is necessary as a distraction. The most distracting thing about The Polygamist is the one persistent question: Where the fuck do they get these shades of lipstick from?


Reactionary Reviews | Notes From The Underground

Notes is documentary in its truest form. It is a document that aligns to the ethos of what it is documenting. An act of reverence. Refraining from any examination or critique of that it is historicizing. It is here that Notes From The Underground both fails and succeeds.


Belated | The Death Of Bunny Munro

The Death Of Bunny Munro – based on the novel by Nick Cave with music by Nick Cave and featuring a cameo from Nick Cave – is SPOILER ALERT about a character called Bunny Munro who dies.


Belated | Notes On Hats

Circling where the venue should be, a rising niggle. It's not even nine yet according to the listing it’s late, I pay no mind: Jazz is the sufi word for time travel.


Reactionary Reviews | Variasies Op 'n Tema

Variasies toes a line between elegiac and pretentious, and pulls off this high wire act by not resorting to hand-wringing, moving to a subtle, soul-shifting gestalt.


Reactionary Reviews | 180

At precisely 38:22 the newish Netflix algo-scripted revenge pile on, 180, falls apart with a single shot.


Reactionary Review | Swift | by Melinda Ferguson

I don’t need to read Melinda Ferguson’s latest pity porn memoir “Swift” to know it’s shit. The promo interview headline in last week’s Business Day says it all. Look it up, I’m not going to give them the fucking clicks. And no, I didn’t bother to read the interview either.