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Sufjan Stevens, “All Delighted People (Original Version)”
Sufjan unexpectedly doused his musical boon upon long-awaiting fans from whatever aural plane he now resides. Drenched with his familiar, idiosyncratic sound, All Delighted People is a sparkling embrace after five years of mixed signals. It is magnificent. The first track of the same name is essentially a summary of Sufjan’s musical prowess: incomparable song [...]
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Perfume Genius, “Your Drum”
Post-Learning, a fragile, fucked-up little wonder, Perfume Genius delivers another stark tune to add to his roster. Because sometimes you just need to feed your inner turmoil. Photo: Mike Hadreas, via Matador
Number (N)ine Autumn/Winter 2009 Collection
This is Takahiro Miyashita’s final menswear collection for Number (N)ine. This is Number (N)ine at it’s utmost splendor. It is really a legendary ending. Yesterday I was able to brave the dreary Manhattan weather–fitting in retrospect–to visit the very last sample sale for the brand. Along both walls of the narrow boutique-turned-repository were cramped clothing [...]
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Conversation Series by M/M Paris
This sense of a democracy of interlocutors in Obrist’s interviews, the suspicion that between and beneath these conversations others are going on even as he and his current interviewee speak, is partly a matter of the discursive form of the Q&A. In an interview with Paul Rabinow in 1984, Michel Foucault expressed an antipathy toward [...]
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Patrik Ervell Spring/Summer 2008 Collection