11 Books We're Excited to Read in October 2024 - Our Culture
WEB2 days ago · Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality, Lyta Gold (October 29) Essayist Lyta Gold attacks the panic around conservative book bans, morally correct fiction, censorship and redaction with a historian’s gaze and an online thinker’s sharp wit. In these eight essays, she argues that people of all eras were cautious ...
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WEBKele. Credit: Press. Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has announced his new album, The Singing Winds Pt. 3, which will be out January 17 via KOLA Records/!K7. It’s led by the lead single ‘It Wasn’t Meant To Be’, which follows last month’s ‘Hometown Edge’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Album Review: Geordie Greep, 'The New Sound' - Our Culture
WEB2 days ago · October 3, 2024. When Geordie Greep decided to call his debut solo album The New Sound, he didn’t have the sound nailed down yet. He knew that was going to be the title before he even started recording it, when no one had any reason to believe there wouldn’t be a black midi album after Hellfire. Then, …
8 Books We’re Excited to Read in April 2024 - Our Culture
WEBby Sam Franzini. March 31, 2024. April showers are notoriously wonderful to read in, so for our fourth book list of the year, we’re including psychological and sociological essay collections, lurid, ruthless novels, and a reboot of an aging star’s glory days. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess, Becca Rothfeld (April 2)
The Psychological Benefits of Art in Your Home - Our Culture
WEBJun 15, 2021 · When viewing art, blood flow to the brain increases by around 10%, meaning our higher cognitive functions are far more active. Art can also give you a dopamine boost. When looking at particularly beautiful or enticing art, our brain releases a form of dopamine, and some believe the chemical reaction, mixed with our own emotional responses can ...
The 50 Best Album Covers of 2021 - Our Culture
WEBDec 3, 2021 · 41. Lost Horizons, In Quiet Moments. In Quiet Moments, the second album from the duo of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and former Dif Juz drummer Richie Thomas, is subtle yet sweeping, capturing moments of contemplative intimacy that tend to …
A Deep Dive Into The Cure’s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ - Our Culture
WEBFeb 21, 2021 · In ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, the song’s protagonist is unable to escape those internalized societal pressures. The narrative is a simple and familiar one: boy meets girl, boy mistreats girl, boy loses girl. All that has already transpired before Smith even sings the first verse, and the song focuses more on his inability to express regret and ...
Office Culture Share New Songs ‘Everything’ and ‘Desire’
WEB3 days ago · Office Culture have shared two new songs from their upcoming album Enough: ‘Everything’ (featuring Jackie West) and ‘Desire’.It follows earlier cuts ‘Open Up Your Fist’, ‘Beach Friday’, and ‘Counting Game’.Check it out below. Enough, the Brooklyn band’s follow-up to 2022’s Big Time Thing, comes out October 18 via Ruination Records.
A Deep Dive Into Nirvana’s ‘All Apologies’ - Our Culture
WEBJun 7, 2020 · Few melodic lines in the history of popular music are as omnipresent as that of Nirvana’s 1993 single ‘All Apologies’. Though, to this day, the opening riffs of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ or ‘Come As You Are’ are arguably more ubiquitous in terms of radio play, ‘All Apologies’ has an altogether different quality about it, a kind of mystical languor that seeks to permanently ...