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A dialectic is a story we tell about development. How do things change over time is a question that’s bothered us in the West since the Greeks, and the past 200 years have been about developing com... Lees meer

American Gong is frustrating. It’s not a bad album by far, based on the usual criteria one arranges on the bar graph of goodness: it’s melodic, paced well, pleasant and so on. At the same time, how... Lees meer

While preparing to write a review of Field Music’s latest album Measure, I went back to see what other Dusted writers had said about Field Music. Malini Sridharan review of 2007’s Tones of Town see... Lees meer

Both Nathan Hogan and Jennifer Kelly have explored the two most salient points that a discussion of Kath Bloom raises. We’ll proceed from there. In short, Bloom had worked with Loren Mazzacane Conn... Lees meer

Jon Pitt does an exceedingly accurate job of describing the core of Scout Niblett’s aesthetic in his review of 2005’s Kidnapped by Neptune. The quiet/loud dynamic and the Nirvana/grunge influence a... Lees meer

David Grubbs’ new piece Hybrid Song Box.4 began as the accompaniment to installation artist Angela Bulloch’s 2008 eponymous artwork, which was part of the Guggenheim’s Theanyspacewhatever exhibit l... Lees meer

The moments of oldness and of the past that are particularly striking in Thao and the Get Down Stay Down’s new album Know Better Learn Faster are interesting when you know the wider social context.... Lees meer

If there’s an auteur theory of Pavement – “Steve Malkmus was the visionary force behind the band” – both his and Scott Kannberg’s solo albums go a long way towards disproving that idea. It’s pretty... Lees meer

What should we expect from artists in their “mature” phase? What does the term “mature” even mean when applied to an artist? Two uses come immediately to mind, both pejorative, one more so than the... Lees meer

Trapped Animal is like a character in one of those body-snatching films. The aliens take someone close to the protagonist – let’s say her mom – and the alien that replaces her is mostly-mom. But ce... Lees meer