Want to know what the MEANS writers have been enjoying over the last month? We’ve put together a list of awesome things that currently tickle our fancy: check them out below!
Phantasmagoria of Jathila by Raja Kirik, conjures mesmerising industrial-tinged dance music from Indonisia. Broken up into several acts, things get increasing weird and psychedelic as it heads into the second half.
Moolakiiclubaudiointerface is a really great DIY electronica record label, which I have seen grow amazingly over the last couple of Years, Jez is passionate about his label and what he releases.
In The Sun is a bumper haul double album and a great Fanzine to accompany it, Assistant’s short, bright, jangly guitar indie pop anthems are perfect for the summer.
Boulderdash is a zine for enthusiasts of stones, drones and noise. Founded and curated by Jessica Beechey, the bumper second edition was released to mark the summer solstice and features a wealth of works across the creative arts – from field works to folklore, poetry to performance, and writing all rooted in diverse elemental and sonic exploration.
The Zone of Interest is a Holocaust film within a film – one you watch and one you listen to. Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing war film is an eerie experiment in perspective, showcasing the evils of indifference and sounds of cruelty.
With Headwaters Histamine Tapes’ ND Dentico explores the profound power of water. Using baritone guitar, pedals and hydrophone, two long-form healing drones offer up a fieldwork study in climate change and nature’s ability to both create and destroy.
Agustín Fernández Mallo’s The Book of All Loves is a deeply layered hybrid, blending fiction with poetry and philosophy in order to explore what love can be beyond the physical and emotional as it shifts into linguistics and the metaphysical.
Ellen Dillon’s Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel is a poetry collection which examines the final breath of an ‘I’ conscious within the divisible self. We witness a portrait of thinking; a breaking down of cells, of memories, the songs of Townes Van Zandt and how a body and soul disintegrates into the collective ‘we’ of our experiences.
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