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What happens when the whole world suddenly becomes one of post-facts and suddenly your post-irony persona starts to lose its magic? That’s the question that Josh Tillman seems to be asking himself throughout his surreal short film Pure…

Run The Jewels RTJ3 'Legend Has It', an early highlight on rap duo Run The Jewels' third effort, acts as a microcosm for the album as a whole. Over El-P’s thrilling sci-fi spaghetti western beat, Killer Mike spits that the group are in…

Metallica Hardwired... To Self-Destruct The world has a strange way of producing art that seems to both match and respond to the zeitgeist perfectly. I’m filled with immense gratitude that in recent weeks there’s been a number of…

Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker Since emerging as a long in the tooth heritage act, Leonard Cohen’s output has been a lot stronger than it's really had any right to be. Popular Problems and Old Ideas proved to not only be as good as…

Róisín Murphy Take Her Up To Monto There’s a moment towards the end of ‘Mastermind’, the opening track of Róisín Murphy’s brilliant new album Take Her Up To Monto, where a number of incredibly dramatic multi-tracked vocals blend…

The most basic way of explaining the plot of Elvis and Nixon is that it’s a film about two mutual and equally delusional quests. Theorizing that his movie experience has given him a good background in disguise and infiltration, and that his…

Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool After a somewhat tepid response to 2011's awkward, bleepy The King of Limbs, it seemed as though Radiohead might consider reinvention for album number nine. After deleting all presence on social media and…

John Carpenter Lost Themes II The great thing about pop culture is its nostalgia problem. Trends love to repeat themselves, and as regurgitation goes, the last few years have been pretty great, with the 80s getting a re-appraisal.…

Little Green Cars Ephemera In spite of music sales falling off a cliff in this country in recent times, there’s been no shortage of Irish acts making it relatively big, at least as big as it is possible to get in a world where HMV and…

A subject that Hollywood is strangely silent about is itself. While there are great dramas set in and around the sordidness of the movie business (Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, The Aviator), screwball comedies about making movies…