Fiona Apple is one of pop music’s maximalists. She has unique and unplaceable vocal style; her songs are jammed with lyrics delivered in urgent, breathless, monologue. A lot of her songs sound like insistent Sondheim recitative or slam poetry. The titles of her albums set records for their length (When…

In January 2016 an article in the journal Science argued that human activity has so significantly effected the climatic, biological and geochemical signatures in sediments and ice cores since the mid-20th century that the period should be considered a new geological epoch “functionally and stratigraphically distinct” from the Holocene (which…

Edward Henderson, February 2020 Steve McQueen’s work is varied and uncategorisable. He makes art films and sculptures. He makes sprawling socio-polictical work: in Queen and Country he created sheets of stamps featuring the faces of British soldiers killed in the Iraq war. He makes feature films (Hunger, Shame, the Academy…

On ‘I Like My Friends’ by Mocrep Chicago-based interdisciplinary music and performance collective Mocrep have spent the past few years positioning themselves at the forefront of international avant-garde composition. They have performed Jennifer Walshe’s Barbie opera XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS, run workshops in at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music and Stanford University and collaborated with European composers interested…