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Ben Frost – Steel Wound (Room40, 2003)

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:31:38 +0000

Over Christmas I took a few walks around my alma mater, the University of Birmingham, just a short walk from where my family lives now. Although my family home has never been more proximal to the place I spent the final years of my education, I very rarely visit the campus when I return home. It […]

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Madeleine Cocolas – Ithaca (Room40, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:34:27 +0000

When I was fifteen I went to Iceland on a school trip; we spent a week there, travelling up into the North and then circumnavigating the East coast to return to Reykjavik. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, not only seeing this very alien foreign country in all its icy […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – Solastalgia (Room40, 2019)

Chris — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:44:35 +0000

On the train back from London earlier today my boss was gazing out the window as we left a station of whose name I can’t recall, out at the flurry of high-rise apartment blocks springing up everywhere. She said “people really need to stop having children don’t they?”. It was just an off-the-cuff remark, and […]

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Tomasz Bednarczyk – Illustrations For Those Who (Room 40, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:48:07 +0000

I don’t sketch. I wish that I could, along with many other artistic endeavours, but I’ve never been very good at putting pen to paper and drawing. It’s unclear whether Tomasz has an aptitude for drawing either, but what is apparent is his ability to conjure distinct visions musically, to trace a particular environment not […]

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Lawrence English – Cruel Optimism (Room40, 2017)

Chris — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:43:40 +0000

I’ve been reading a lot about the Eiger lately, the harsh North Face of that unforgiving mountain which has rebuffed many an attempt made to conquer it, overcoming the best climbers and the most willful men, robbing some of their lives in the process. Often they have been presented with a difficult choice in the […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography (Room40, 2015)

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:18:31 +0000

It’s difficult to imagine what life would be like if right at this moment most of our possessions and the tools of our livelihood all suddenly disappeared; unfortunately this is exactly what happened to Irisarri when his removals van was stolen during a house move. The literal loss and the barrage of subsequent emotions is […]

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Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40, 2014)

Chris — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:50:12 +0000

Beautifully crafted technological fugues in Lawrence English's latest full length inspired by T.S Eliot, "Wilderness of Mirrors"

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