All the reviews I have written for AFX Radio London; highlighting up and coming musicians by reviewing their singles, EPs and albums.
This Schiaparelli dress transforms the female physique into a landscape of pain. With a pattern designed by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli created this piece as a part of her Spring 1938 ‘Circus Collection’. It consists of a motif of bursting flesh that repeats itself throughout the dress with a matching veil that accompanies…
A mother holds up her daughter whilst sitting on a rocking chair. The mother’s chest is hollow as she holds up her seemingly happy baby. One does not understand this scene as the woman being incomplete, rather it can be seen that her child completes her. A perhaps archaic assumption, I think ignoring that would…
Sometimes it feels like the greatest feat in the world to pick up the phone and call your doctor. Once you’ve jumped through that hurdle, you awkwardly tell the receptionist why you need to go see the GP. After getting poked and prodded, none of it feels worth it when you have to just walk…
I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME CRY ANYMORE. Bogdan Raczynski’s album cover for his album myloveilove is an almost disturbingly personal image of him laying beside you, with a pink hue overlaid. It sets the tone for his 17 track masterpiece, which explores heartbreak through his out of tune singing and accordions and synths…
Whilst I let my body sink into the sofa cushions, I listened to Grimes’ 2012 Visions album for the thousandth time. Track 8 starts to play as I become intimately fused to the furniture, “Be a Body”. Unable to move, my mind spirals as I question what it even means to be a body. Grimes…
The British government has no issue watching their people die, they would rather prop up the heavy pockets of the wealthy on the carcasses of the poor. Scotland’s state of deprivation is driving people to escape their realities through substance abuse, at a rate which has been increasing the past 20 years. The government would…