k-punk

I’m going to Florence for a little break until Saturday. I’m going to really try not to check any email while I’m there, so bear with me until the weekend if you want to contact me.
In other news….
Call off the backlash now… The new Burial LP is as keeningly, ravishingly compulsive as I’d hoped it would be, utterly beguiling vocal science, painfully sad… Imagine Wenders’ Wings of Desire if it weren’t ‘Everybody Hurts’ portentous, and set in London instead of Berlin… London as a city of mutilated, betrayed angels, their wings of desire clipped…
Do check out my interview with Underground Resistance in the Wire when it hits the newsstands in the next few days…
My review of Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises is in the new ish of Sight and Sound, and is very much in tune with Steve Shaviro’s assessment of the film…