Oct 7, 2018 Anime Movies Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower Carries on Studio Ghibli’s Delightful Legacy (Review) Mary and the Witch’s Flower could easily be mistaken for a classic Studio Ghibli film, and that’s not a bad thing.
Sep 27, 2018 Movies The Endless by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead (Review) While frequently billed as a horror movie, that term actually undersells this movie.
Sep 23, 2018 Best of Opus Music Low Tear Their Music Apart on Double Negative, with Stunning Results (Review) Some of the most challenging music of Low’s career, but also some of the most daring, intriguing, and rewarding.
Aug 31, 2018 Music Ogre’s Chairman OST Captivates with Ominous, Haunting Synth Arrangements (Review) The album’s blurred washes of ambience conjure a sense of growing dread — but there’s beauty to be heard, as well.
Aug 25, 2018 Music In Rotation: epic45, mewithoutYou, Petrol Girls, Ruptured World (Review) Nostalgia-laden pastoral post-rock, artistic post-hardcore, raging feminist post hardcore, and a cosmic horror soundtrack.
Aug 25, 2018 Music Endless Frontier by New Society (Review) New Society’s songs possess the sort of candor and bluntness you find in much of Christian industrial music.
Aug 25, 2018 Music We Cast Out the Devil by Christian Image (Review) There’s nevertheless something fascinating about the Belgian trio’s music, raw as it may be.
Aug 25, 2018 Music Innocence by The Children of Power (Review) Part of me thinks they could have achieved the same status that Dead Artist Syndrome and Lifesavers Underground now enjoy in Christian circles.
Aug 25, 2018 Best of Opus Music Old-School Christian Goth & Industrial: The Children of Power, Christian Image, and New Society (Review) These albums are a fascinating glimpse into a realm of Christian music that most people probably never even knew existed.
Aug 8, 2018 Literature S. A. Chakraborty’s Captivating City of Brass Is a Refreshing Fantasy Debut (Review) Chakraborty’s novel finds inspiration in Islamic and Middle-Eastern religion and culture for its exotic world-building.
Jul 27, 2018 Music In Rotation: The Declining Winter, HTRK, Tobias Svensson, Thousand Foot Whale Claw, WMD (Review) Pastoral post-rock, ominous-yet-lovely electronic, contemplative electro-classical, krautrock-inspired cinematic music, and glassy dreampop.
Jul 7, 2018 Music Ways of Seeing Is The Advisory Circle’s Most Accessible Album, But It’s Still Pretty Weird (Review) The Council’s latest takes the Ghost Box aesthetic in more straightforward — though still odd and otherworldly — directions.
Jul 5, 2018 Music In Rotation: The Mary Onettes, Mondo Grosso, Pure Bathing Culture (Review) The Mary Onettes return with more dreamy pop, Mondo Grosso delivers euphoric electronica, and Pure Bathing Culture cover The Blue Nile.
Jun 27, 2018 Music In Rotation: Amy Klein, Lightning Bug, The Smynths, Tripmastermonk (Review) Classic-sounding goth pop, hazy dreampop, synth-only Smiths covers, and vintage Japanese cinematic funk.
Jun 4, 2018 Music The Embrace Between the Circus and the Sky by Silk Demon (Review) This collection of dreamlike yet unsettling ambient music is one of Dream Catalogue’s best releases in recent memory.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #5: Fathom by Mortal (Review) Mortal was the first band that showed me that Christian bands could hold their own with secular artists.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #4: I Could Live in Hope by Low (Review) I was completely spellbound by Low’s stripped down, sparser-than-sparse sound.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #3: The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience (Review) This album was a constant companion during a long period of heartbreak and doubt.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #2: What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye (Review) This is an album in which I still find peace, relief, and inspiration to this day.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #1: Wish by The Cure (Review) Put simply, no album feels more like high school to me, for better or worse, than Wish.