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billy woods – GOLLIWOG

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It speaks to the plethora of racist caricatures and epithets which proliferated in the United States that the golliwog rag doll with its black skin, frizzy hair and blood-red lips has been described by the Jim Crow Museum as the 'least known' of the group. That certainly wasn't the case when I grew up in England, where the golliwog...

E L U C I D – INTERFERENCE PATTERN

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Look out this week for Elucid's staggering 41-minute Interference Pattern, a sound collage or mixtape or whatever you want to call it which once again expands his sonic palette while serving as a recapitulation of sorts as the rapper uses samples and electronic treatments to glance back on his 2024. Through pitch-shifted vocals the mix takes its title from...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2024

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...