Tag: Jake Xerxes Fussell

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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...

On almost every track of Jake Xerxes Fussell's fifth studio album When I'm Called, there is a stringent and plangent tone which is reminiscent of Van Morrison and the Astral Weeks closer 'Slim Slow Slider', a song about a sad departure, two trains passing in the night or drifting into the looming spectre of the vast beyond. That sort of...

Cleaving her way through a bout of writer's block with the aid of the percussionist Matt Chamberlain and producer Randall Dunn, this week Zola Jesus unveils her sixth studio album amid the cave dwellings and rock-cut chapels of Cappadocia, with the song 'Lost' serving as 'a sigil to rediscover our coordinates and claim a new path'. From the concert...