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Isaac Helsen – Burning House (EL Muelle/Low Versions, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:42:55 +0000

When I first moved to my current residence almost five years ago it was a strange period of displacement and adjustment. Leaving aside the new working arrangement, the physical act of moving oneself and possessions across the country to live, permanently, elsewhere is a challenging process. Everything is new, unfamiliar, unsettled. Years later I’m still […]

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Duane Pitre – Omniscient Voices (Important Records, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:09:13 +0000

Are you happy? I had a throwaway conversation briefly with someone recently, where I stipulated that life is suffering first and foremost and ultimately a pursuit of fleeting moments of happiness, whereas he contended that it was more the other way around. His view was that we are more creatures of aversion to suffering and […]

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Arovane – Reihen (12k, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:07:22 +0000

There’s something in the structure and/or formality of museums that calms and composes the viewer, gently funnelling you from one piece to the next whilst allowing each discrete item its own space, it’s own opportunity to be seen. The setting itself is mundane at best, a platform optimised for the flattery of its occupants with […]

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Padang Food Tigers – God’s Plenty (Shhpuma, 2021)

Chris — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:38:37 +0000

We went canoeing on the River Severn last month, along a quaint 14 mile stretch passing woodlands and sandstone cliffs and steam railways. Aside from the modern bridges and riverside static caravans that punctuate the banks periodically, it has a distinct feeling of being out of time, caught in its own little bucolic world that […]

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Jason Van Wyk – Threads (n5MD, 2021)

Chris — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:44:47 +0000

Every year around September and October time, I feel a strangeness set in. Part of it seems to me to be the expectation of education at the end of Summer, the returning to school or university, a feeling so ingrained into my internal timetable over 18 years that even after a decade away from institutionalisation […]

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Benoit Pioulard – A few moments in which I was met with an experience that I might never have again (2021)

Chris — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:12:25 +0000

I close my eyes: I trace every gesture retread every footstep linger in every syllable A jewel of time held in the palm of my past It turns and turns each flickering facet thumbed and rubbed ’til soft and scuffed So precious to me I daren’t touch it now for fear it will wear away […]

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Federico Durand – Herbario (Laaps, 2021)

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:02:15 +0000

In the last few of years I’ve become increasingly obsessed with the colour green. I suspect this originated watching Tarkovsky films, whose use of colour in landscapes scenes is intoxicating to me, and then further entrenched following a return to the familial homeland of Ireland. Emerald Isle, I had forgotten, is a name rightly earned. […]

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claire rousay – a softer focus (American Dreams, 2021)

Chris — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:51:15 +0000

I’ve always felt a little more transparent, a little more vocal than most of my friends when it comes to my online presence. I started blogging and talking in forums well before anyone else I knew at the time, and even today it still feels as though I project more of my thoughts and feelings […]

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r beny – we grow in a gleam (Longform Editions, 2021)

Chris — Tue, 18 May 2021 16:03:51 +0000

We seem to have been talking about kids a lot recently amongst ourselves. Names we like for hypothetical offspring, the neuroses we would keep from them, the world they would grow up in, the feelings of broodiness in some of our female friends. It’s as though there’s some stream running out of us, branching off […]

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Jason Calhoun – introduction to an apology (Florabelle, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 06 May 2021 17:03:48 +0000

Lately I’ve been having these peculiar moments where I, for want of a better term, “flash back” to instances in my past, spurred on by some tenuous connection to things I’m doing at the time or things I’m thinking about. That’s probably an overstated way of saying “I have memories” but I’ll be in the […]

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