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Impact hosts hip-hop fest
Life, Published on 27/02/2019
» Hip-hop fans will be shaken non-stop at the first hip-hop music festival Purple Haze Festival Vol.1, on Friday evening.
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The grey area
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/11/2019
» To this day, no one can really say for certain what happened to Dear Tommy, a supposed follow-up to Chromatics' stunning 2012 opus Kill For Love. According to the popular (and, perhaps, most credible) myth, the record and its previously released singles were scrapped entirely by the band's producer Johnny Jewel, re-recorded, and then … silence. Dear Tommy, it seems, is being put on the back burner, and in its place we have their latest release, Closer To Grey, instead.
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Unhappy Together
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/11/2015
» In By The Sea, a grieving couple arrives at a seaside town in France, a picturesque hamlet fronted by gravel beaches and craggy outcrops. He's Roland, a struggling writer, and he's played by Brad Pitt in what looks like a clear reminiscence of Ernest Hemingway. She's Vanessa, a dancer and a woman in irredeemable sorrow, and she's played by Angelina Jolie-Pitt, her face smeared by a haze of 1970s-style eyeshadow in what looks like a demented version of Sophia Lauren or Monica Vitti.
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Returning to form
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 31/03/2019
» It's hard to believe it's been nearly two decades since Ladytron unleashed its own version of electropop to the world. Hailing from Liverpool, the quartet of Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu first introduced themselves with their 2001 debut 604, a solid 16-track collection heavily influenced by the likes of Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode. In a period when the UK charts sounded a little uninspired (the No.1 singles ranged from JLo's Love Don't Cost A Thing to Limp Bizkit's Rollin' to Afroman's Because I Got High -- you get the idea), Ladytron's simmering cauldron of synth-pop and electro-industrial almost felt like an act of rebellion.
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The personal and the political
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 17/07/2016
» Devonte Hynes returns with an album exploring black identity through a range of voices.
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Primed for pillow talk
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 25/06/2017
» Moving at a glacial pace, Cigarettes After Sex's eponymous debut album is subdued but deeply evocative in its lust and lingering sense of infatuation.
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The Healing Process
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 26/02/2017
» Sampha's long-anticipated debut solo LP sees him dealing with loss and anxiety as he arrives on the scene fully formed as an artist.
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Far From Madding Crowd
B Magazine, Published on 05/03/2017
» Canadian musician Jamison Isaak has been operating under the moniker Teen Daze since 2010, the time when chillwave was still having its moment in the sun and generated a smattering of bands with nostalgia-inducing names like Washed Out, Memoryhouse, Memory Tapes, Sun Glitters and Youth Lagoon, among others. Over the course of the following few years, Isaak would continue to blissfully ride the chillwave, producing a sizeable discography consisting of five studio albums and four EPs -- each of which draws upon varying degrees of crepuscular synths, nebulous melodies and wistful lyricism.
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Stepping Out into the Light
B Magazine, Published on 22/01/2017
» If there's an adage that could succinctly describe the overall sonic aesthetic of The xx up to this point, it would be "less is more". As trite as that may sound, the trio's 2009 self-titled debut was a prime exercise in restraint and impactful minimalism -- a meek concoction of hypnotic basslines, stark drum machine and laconic, understated vocals that recall a furtive whisper in the dark. It's the kind of music made principally by introverts for introverts, but somehow, along the way, its indie-slash-R&B-slash-soul appeal attracted a far wider audience. The group went on to win the Mercury Prize the following year and suddenly found themselves struggling with a pop star status.
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In the kinky zone
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/12/2016
» No more debacle: Prabda Yoon's Rong Ram Tang Dao (Motel Mist) is finally in cinemas. Last month, just one day before the original release, the film's investor TrueVisions decided that they didn't like what they saw (despite the film having been finished 10 months earlier) and pulled it off the programme to the shock of many, chiefly the director. Rampant criticism of self-censorship followed. Now the filmmakers have decided to untie themselves from the deal and release the film on their own, so you can catch it now at SF CentralWorld, House RCA and Bangkok Screening Room.
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