WAIT, WHAT YEAR IS IT?

"There was no leading edge of innovation any more. In music, as elsewhere in culture, we were living, in Franco Berardi’s suggestive phrase, after the future."
- mark fisher



lana del rey - chemtrails over the country club (2021)


the weeknd - blinding lights (2020)

“The older folks like it because it’s a throwback, and then the kids love it because it’s a new thing that they never heard before..."


arctic monkeys - i bet you look good on the dancefloor (2006)


broadcast - the book lovers (1997)

"...1930s tea- room pop to degradation (delay, distortion), rendering it as a series of sweet traces that are veiled by one of sonic hauntology’s signature traits, the conspicuous use of crackle, which renders time as an audible materiality."