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Tracks of the Week 21.10.23

Tracks of the Week
Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and distilled experiences of their youth, mining the nineties for shreds of old band practices and the digitised squibs and pixelated bits which made up the formative years...

Little Island Finally Floats as the Park Opens on the Hudson River

Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzc8QHALA4 Back in 2014, the designer Thomas Heatherwick unveiled plans for a floating island park at Pier 55 on the Hudson River. Conceived as a 'treasure island' with an undulating topography, dense foliage, and public spaces for performance, the artificial island would replace the dilapidated Pier 55 and adjacent Pier 54, where the RMS Carpathia once docked carrying the survivors...