Since exploding into popular consciousness with XXX, a 2011 masterwork detailing his crazed life of sex, pills, and weed, Danny Brown has served as a lodestone for modern rap’s perilous embrace of hard drugs. The Detroit rapper utilized a manic, strangely hyper cadence seemingly fueled by too much Molly. More importantly, he created music with fearlessness, seemingly unconcerned with how the oft-conservative rap world perceived him. When Edm soared in popularity, he penned Old, a wildly exuberant 2013 valentine to getting wasted as an elderly thirtysomething Mc while collaborating with alt-pop...
- 11/15/2023
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
Philadelphia post-punk band Poison Ruïn have released their new album, Härvest, via Relapse Records. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
The buzz surrounding the group is well-deserved, as proven by the title track. It offers a rare blend of lo-fi post-punk and classic Sst hardcore, with the trebly vintage production evoking Hüsker Dü and modern lo-fi auteurs Molechat Doma. Comparisons to ’80s deathrock/hardcore acts such as Christian Death and early T.S.O.L. are also warranted.
Meanwhile, the medieval aesthetics of the music video and Härvest artwork have more in common with black metal or dungeon synth. As singer-guitarist Mac Kennedy explained, the album’s lyrics and imagery rework fantasy themes “as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality.”
He added, “I’ve always found...
The buzz surrounding the group is well-deserved, as proven by the title track. It offers a rare blend of lo-fi post-punk and classic Sst hardcore, with the trebly vintage production evoking Hüsker Dü and modern lo-fi auteurs Molechat Doma. Comparisons to ’80s deathrock/hardcore acts such as Christian Death and early T.S.O.L. are also warranted.
Meanwhile, the medieval aesthetics of the music video and Härvest artwork have more in common with black metal or dungeon synth. As singer-guitarist Mac Kennedy explained, the album’s lyrics and imagery rework fantasy themes “as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality.”
He added, “I’ve always found...
- 4/14/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Glenn “Spot” Lockett, the trailblazing punk producer behind Sst Records and artistic statements by the likes of Hüsker Dü and Black Flag, has died at 72. The influential engineer had been battling fibrosis before he suffered a stroke several months earlier and ultimately passed away on Saturday at a healthcare facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Former Sst Records co-owner Joe Carducci broke the news of Lockett’s death in a statement via Facebook, sharing that “his nurse told me he woke up alright but later showed no pulse and several attempts to revive him failed.” He noted the producer’s preferred name spelling “in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O” and called him “an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era.”
Carducci hailed Lockett for taking “the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or...
Former Sst Records co-owner Joe Carducci broke the news of Lockett’s death in a statement via Facebook, sharing that “his nurse told me he woke up alright but later showed no pulse and several attempts to revive him failed.” He noted the producer’s preferred name spelling “in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O” and called him “an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era.”
Carducci hailed Lockett for taking “the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or...
- 3/6/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Glen “Spot” Lockett, who served as the in-house producer and engineer for legendary punk label Sst Records, died on Saturday at age 72. The news was confirmed by former label co-owner Joe Carducci.
According to Carducci’s Facebook post, Lockett died at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He had been been on oxygen after fibrosis had began to impair his lung function, and was hoping for a lung transplant, per the post, but a stroke three months prior necessitated a trip to the hospital.
“His principal sideline was as a record...
According to Carducci’s Facebook post, Lockett died at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He had been been on oxygen after fibrosis had began to impair his lung function, and was hoping for a lung transplant, per the post, but a stroke three months prior necessitated a trip to the hospital.
“His principal sideline was as a record...
- 3/5/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Record Store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2023 edition taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, 2023.
This year promises exclusive wax from Taylor Swift, The 1975, Beach House, Pearl Jam, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Nas, and even Peppa Pig.
You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.
Taylor Swift will release the first vinyl edition of folklore: the long pond studio sessions.
The 1975 will release Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on vinyl for the first time. Available on double clear vinyl as well as cassette tape, the expanded set includes a version of “Chocolate” originally featured on the 2023 Music For Cars EP.
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who serve as this year’s Record Store Ambassadors, will release Sound Emporium EP,...
This year promises exclusive wax from Taylor Swift, The 1975, Beach House, Pearl Jam, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Nas, and even Peppa Pig.
You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.
Taylor Swift will release the first vinyl edition of folklore: the long pond studio sessions.
The 1975 will release Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on vinyl for the first time. Available on double clear vinyl as well as cassette tape, the expanded set includes a version of “Chocolate” originally featured on the 2023 Music For Cars EP.
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who serve as this year’s Record Store Ambassadors, will release Sound Emporium EP,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton was meant to head out on the road in late June for his first tour with UltraBomb – the supergroup he formed with The Mahones’ Finny McConnell and UK Subs’s Jamie Oliver – before a prostate cancer diagnosis halted the scheduled shows. Now, Oliver and other friends of the musician have launched a GoFundMe to raise money for his medical expenses.
“We can’t imagine the stress and anxiety he and his family must be going through,” organizers wrote. “One thing that’s for sure, though,...
“We can’t imagine the stress and anxiety he and his family must be going through,” organizers wrote. “One thing that’s for sure, though,...
- 7/4/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould has surprise-released The Ocean, a new EP containing solo acoustic renditions of three songs. Two come from his recent past — “The Ocean” and “Forecast of Rain” both featured on his 2020 album Blue Hearts — and one from his Hüsker Dü days, “Divide and Conquer” from 1985’s Flip Your Wig. Mould recorded the songs at his San Francisco home studio, Granary Music, for NPR’s World Café.
Mould is also releasing a new video for “Forecast of Rain,” which he filmed at Stoughton, Wisconsin last October on a solo tour.
Mould is also releasing a new video for “Forecast of Rain,” which he filmed at Stoughton, Wisconsin last October on a solo tour.
- 2/15/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s and into the Nineties, she was a stalwart for many in the folk and evolving country music scene — what Steve Earle termed “the great credibility scare” when Nashville “opened its doors (and ears) to such left-of-center artists” as Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Fred Armisen helps Bob Mould unbox every version of Mould’s career-spanning retrospective box set, Distortion.
Distortion chronicles Mould’s post-Hüsker Dü career, the 18 studio albums he recorded as a solo artist and as the frontman of Sugar, plus four live albums, and two albums of rarities and collaborations. A 24-cd set was released last year, while the vinyl sets were subsequently issued in four separate volumes with the last, Distortion: Live, set to arrive August 6th.
The new unboxing video finds Mould offering some great historical tidbits, like...
Distortion chronicles Mould’s post-Hüsker Dü career, the 18 studio albums he recorded as a solo artist and as the frontman of Sugar, plus four live albums, and two albums of rarities and collaborations. A 24-cd set was released last year, while the vinyl sets were subsequently issued in four separate volumes with the last, Distortion: Live, set to arrive August 6th.
The new unboxing video finds Mould offering some great historical tidbits, like...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould has announced his Distortion and Blue Hearts! Tour, kicking off September 16th at Paradise in Boston.
The tour will be broken into two halves. Mould will spend the first three weeks performing with Jason Narducy on bass and drummer Jon Wurster. Mould will perform Solo Distortion electric shows on his own, beginning October 15th in Bloomington, Illinois.
“It’s been a year and a half away from the stage,” Mould said in a statement. “I’ve missed the noise, the sweat, and seeing your smiling faces. I’m fully vaccinated,...
The tour will be broken into two halves. Mould will spend the first three weeks performing with Jason Narducy on bass and drummer Jon Wurster. Mould will perform Solo Distortion electric shows on his own, beginning October 15th in Bloomington, Illinois.
“It’s been a year and a half away from the stage,” Mould said in a statement. “I’ve missed the noise, the sweat, and seeing your smiling faces. I’m fully vaccinated,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Thirty years ago, Bob Mould released an album titled Black Sheets of Rain, a turn of phrase that could have doubled as his outlook at the time and for many of the years that followed. But he seemed to soften up last year when he put out Sunshine Rock, a cheery, decidedly anti-sardonic offering of hope with schmaltzy strings on several songs. It even sported a jaunty, upbeat cover of Shocking Blue’s lost Sixties nugget, “Send Me a Postcard.” But on his latest LP. the sparkle has faded.
Blue...
Blue...
- 9/24/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Read: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
Artists, Songwriters, and Producers 9th Wonder Johntá Austin A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Mick Avory
The Kinks Glen Ballard Alice Bag Bas Jon Batiste Big Boi Beyoncé Branko Michael Brun Eric Burdon
The Animals John Cale
The...
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
Artists, Songwriters, and Producers 9th Wonder Johntá Austin A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Mick Avory
The Kinks Glen Ballard Alice Bag Bas Jon Batiste Big Boi Beyoncé Branko Michael Brun Eric Burdon
The Animals John Cale
The...
- 9/22/2020
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould has shared a new song, “Siberian Butterfly,” from his next album, Blue Hearts, out September 25th via Merge Records.
“Siberian Butterfly” is a blast of classic alt-rock, and, in a statement, Mould explained that the song began with him parsing the notion of “collectors” — “people with excessive means who gather the works of creative folk for their ego-driven portfolio” — before it transformed into something more personal.
“As I kept writing, the narrative shifted toward themes of change, growth and freedom,” he said. “These motifs are central to how we become our true selves.
“Siberian Butterfly” is a blast of classic alt-rock, and, in a statement, Mould explained that the song began with him parsing the notion of “collectors” — “people with excessive means who gather the works of creative folk for their ego-driven portfolio” — before it transformed into something more personal.
“As I kept writing, the narrative shifted toward themes of change, growth and freedom,” he said. “These motifs are central to how we become our true selves.
- 9/9/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould will chronicle the three decades of his career that came after the breakup of Hüsker Dü in a new box set.
The collection, Distortion: 1989 – 2019, will contain 24 CDs: the 18 studio albums he has recorded as a solo artist and as the frontman of Sugar, four live albums, and two albums of rarities and collaborations. It will come out on October 2nd. The first installment of a vinyl version of the box set will come out the same day.
Mould is previewing the collection Thursday with an amped-up live recording...
The collection, Distortion: 1989 – 2019, will contain 24 CDs: the 18 studio albums he has recorded as a solo artist and as the frontman of Sugar, four live albums, and two albums of rarities and collaborations. It will come out on October 2nd. The first installment of a vinyl version of the box set will come out the same day.
Mould is previewing the collection Thursday with an amped-up live recording...
- 8/13/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould’s raging new song “American Crisis” starts with a full-on scream.
The track will appear on his upcoming 14th solo LP, Blue Hearts, and it vibrates with urgency as he sings, “I never thought I’d see this bullshit again.” The lyrics compare the current political and social environments to the Eighties, alluding to the way AIDS claimed innumerable lives, and he caps it with a cutting chorus, “Welcome back to American crisis/No telling what the price is.” It’s an aggressive first taste of the album,...
The track will appear on his upcoming 14th solo LP, Blue Hearts, and it vibrates with urgency as he sings, “I never thought I’d see this bullshit again.” The lyrics compare the current political and social environments to the Eighties, alluding to the way AIDS claimed innumerable lives, and he caps it with a cutting chorus, “Welcome back to American crisis/No telling what the price is.” It’s an aggressive first taste of the album,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Whether with Hüsker Dü, Sugar or as a solo artist, Bob Mould has always sung about taking on the world alone.
Now he’ll be doing just that on a unique tour where he’ll be performing with only his electric guitar to accompany him. He’s done it before, but this time he’ll be bringing the show to venues that are new to him around the East Coast. The tour, which features former Centro-Matic frontman Will Johnson as support, follows a full-band tour in support of his recent,...
Now he’ll be doing just that on a unique tour where he’ll be performing with only his electric guitar to accompany him. He’s done it before, but this time he’ll be bringing the show to venues that are new to him around the East Coast. The tour, which features former Centro-Matic frontman Will Johnson as support, follows a full-band tour in support of his recent,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When it arrived 70 years ago today, the 45 rpm single, a format that would revolutionize pop music, seemed less radical than simply confusing. On March 15th, 1949, RCA Victor became the first label to roll out records that were smaller (seven inches in diameter) and held less music (only a few minutes a side) than the in-vogue 78s.
The size of 45s alone, combined with the fact that different gear was suddenly required to play them, was enough to perplex the pre-rock music business. “My customers don’t know what to buy anymore,...
The size of 45s alone, combined with the fact that different gear was suddenly required to play them, was enough to perplex the pre-rock music business. “My customers don’t know what to buy anymore,...
- 3/15/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, Bob Mould told me an anecdote about how people view his live shows. “Somebody once tweeted something like, ‘Oh, my God. I’m at a Bob Mould show, and it seems like it’s been an hour and a half of the same song. It’s incredible,'” he said. “At first, I sort of took offense to it, and then I realized, no, that’s actually like, ‘Oh, cool.'”
Few artists have upheld (or at least revisited) a musical point of view quite like Mould.
Few artists have upheld (or at least revisited) a musical point of view quite like Mould.
- 2/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Mould, who admits he’s “typically not the nostalgic type” in a statement, has booked two concerts that will mark 40 years since he launched his music career as a member of Hüsker Dü. The gigs will take place in St. Paul at the Palace on March 30th and the Turf Club on the 31st. The latter show has already sold out.
In a remembrance, Mould recalled how he started his “professional” music career on March 30th, 1979 playing with a band called Buddy and the Returnables that featured the three...
In a remembrance, Mould recalled how he started his “professional” music career on March 30th, 1979 playing with a band called Buddy and the Returnables that featured the three...
- 2/13/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Hüsker Dü began making records in the Reagan era, and their hardcore-punk-bad-trip-psychedelia — exemplified in a white-knuckled cover of The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” — was a perfect reflection of Wtf rage at America’s right-wing hijacking. So it’s welcome and fitting to hear new music from ex-frontman Bob Mould during America’s current cultural crisis. What may surprise some, though, is how violently happy Mould can sound on Sunshine Rock. “Look above you, I will love you/In the sunshine” he hollers on the title track, savoring the feel of...
- 2/9/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
“I’ve always been a write-what-you-know kind of guy,” Bob Mould says on what he describes as a rainy San Francisco morning. “So this time, I was trying to consciously create a little bit of a different world to work in.”
He ended up changing his world in two ways. On one hand, he radically overhauled his life and relocated himself to Berlin for big parts of the past few years. He doesn’t speak German, but he’s immersed himself in the culture, going clubbing again and enjoying a change of pace.
He ended up changing his world in two ways. On one hand, he radically overhauled his life and relocated himself to Berlin for big parts of the past few years. He doesn’t speak German, but he’s immersed himself in the culture, going clubbing again and enjoying a change of pace.
- 2/7/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Draco Rosa’s first studio album in five years opens in some confusion, salted with dark humor. The singer is one of the biggest and most notorious stars in modern Latin music. But when he walks into “Hotel de los Encuentros,” he gets the cold shoulder at the registration desk. The voices in charge are barely human — women with the frosty, mechanical sensuality of Alexa, the virtual assistant in your Amazon Echo speaker. They get Rosa’s name wrong and almost send him away before handing over the key to “333” — a room and song that,...
- 10/26/2018
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
Sumac, Love in Shadow | ★★★ 1/2
Keiji Haino and Sumac, American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look at Face On | ★★★★
Sumac is an extreme metal power trio with seemingly no boundaries, jazz-like interplay and a hankering for noises both brittle and extreme, sparse and overwhelming. Leader Aaron Turner – former of Isis – stresses in interviews that “heavy” can mean a lot more than just riff bludgeon, and Sumac’s big-tent vision is patient and satisfying, reminiscent of what labelmates Tortoise did for rock music: just replace vinyl-collector obsessions with krautrock,...
Keiji Haino and Sumac, American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look at Face On | ★★★★
Sumac is an extreme metal power trio with seemingly no boundaries, jazz-like interplay and a hankering for noises both brittle and extreme, sparse and overwhelming. Leader Aaron Turner – former of Isis – stresses in interviews that “heavy” can mean a lot more than just riff bludgeon, and Sumac’s big-tent vision is patient and satisfying, reminiscent of what labelmates Tortoise did for rock music: just replace vinyl-collector obsessions with krautrock,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
The date is November 25th, 1990, and Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood are upstairs at Muscle Shoals Sound Recording Studio cutting an album — not for Drive-By Truckers, but for their first band, Adam’s House Cat. Twenty-eight years later, that album, Town Burned Down, is about to see the light of day, with a sneak peek in the form of the snotty punk rock of “Runaway Train.”
Not to be mistaken for a song of the same name by Soul Asylum, a Top Five hit two years later, “Runaway Train” shares a scrappy,...
Not to be mistaken for a song of the same name by Soul Asylum, a Top Five hit two years later, “Runaway Train” shares a scrappy,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Grant Hart, drummer and singer of the alternative rock band Hüsker Dü, has died at 56, his bandmate Bob Mould confirmed on Facebook. The band’s official Facebook page posted a photo of Hart with no caption early Thursday morning. Mould, however, wrote a detailed post about the news. “The tragic news of Grant’s passing was not unexpected to me. My deepest condolences and thoughts to Grant’s family, friends, and fans around the world,” Mould wrote. “Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember.
- 9/14/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Hüsker Dü co-founder Grant Hart reportedly died on September 14 after a lengthy battle with kidney cancer, according to his bandmates. Learn more about the legendary rockstar and his lasting legacy here.
- 9/14/2017
- by Samantha Wilson
- HollywoodLife
Sources on social media are reporting that Grant Hart, a singer, drummer, and songwriter who helped define the sound of alternative rock with his work in legendary post-hardcore band Hüsker Dü, has died. Hart was 56; Variety reports that he had been suffering from cancer.
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- 9/14/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
The eleventh entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Greg Mottola's Adventureland (2009) is now playing in the United States through February 29.Few subjects divide people more sharply and ferociously than respective tastes in music. We build our identities, our system of values, even our world-views, through the music we choose to love and cultivate, whether as players or listeners—and we project our musical distastes onto a screen (or a variety of screens) constituting those monstrous Others from which we differentiate and dissociate ourselves.Popular movies have a lot to do with propagating this fascinating but treacherous and unstable cultural process. Especially teen movies, which involve themselves with the vagaries of pop, rock, and other musical styles more extensively and intimately than most genres—particularly at the level of ‘sampling,’ of the selection of pre-existing tracks for the film soundtrack (and,...
- 1/30/2016
- by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin
- MUBI
2009's Ten Best and Five Worst Films (So Far) We're technically over halfway through 2009, but a disproportionately large number of great films tend to spring up in the latter months of the year, so let's call it halfway for the sake of our collective sanity. It hasn't been a terrific year for filmgoing so far this year, but there have been enough films worth celebrating to justify a roundup. Keep in mind that these rankings are tentative - they're largely based on single viewings, and my estimates of their relative worth may vary over the course of the year. My principal question when ranking new film is: "which films am I most eager to watch again?" With that in mind, my top ten films of the year so far, in descending order: 10. Star Trek (Podcast review) [1] listen now [2] If someone had told you back in January that the summer of...
- 8/6/2009
- by Simon
- SoundOnSight
I’m not normally one for nostalgia, particularly when the sentimentality is packaged for consumption. So, as a child of the 80s, I was a bit wary of Adventureland, which sets its action in that most dubious decade. When 80s fashion and music recently got something of a second run, I recoiled as if somebody had put on a song from Poison and cranked the volume. One dose of Poison was enough, thank you.
Imagine my surprise, then, at feeling a deep, lasting nostalgia — bittersweet and vivid — that had me reminiscing about the good and bad times of my youth late into the night.
Writer/director Greg Mottola and his art & design team nail the period details; the high-waisted jeans and faded concert t-shirts, excessive lip gloss and hairspray, and use of long-gone phrases like "to the max!" all give the film an authentic air. More importantly, the music is just right.
Imagine my surprise, then, at feeling a deep, lasting nostalgia — bittersweet and vivid — that had me reminiscing about the good and bad times of my youth late into the night.
Writer/director Greg Mottola and his art & design team nail the period details; the high-waisted jeans and faded concert t-shirts, excessive lip gloss and hairspray, and use of long-gone phrases like "to the max!" all give the film an authentic air. More importantly, the music is just right.
- 5/1/2009
- CinemaSpy
By Aaron Hillis
Joachim Trier's mother was a documentarian, his father a sound department tech, his grandfather a Cannes-selected filmmaker, and his distant cousin Lars von Trier, so is it any surprise that the feature debut of this Copenhagen-born, Norwegian-based director has already turned out to be one of the year's best imports? An invigoratingly kinetic punk rock ode to young intellectual camaraderie that's as funny and sexy as it is haunting and sad, "Reprise" knocks chronology and narrative structure on their standardized asses to detail the friendship between twentysomething writers Erik (Espen Klouman-Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie). Beginning with the two dreaming rebels standing at a mailbox about to ship their first novels to publishers, "Reprise" digressively dazzles in the moments long after, way before, and several hops in between as one becomes famous, the other hustles in his shadow, and the pressures of reality bring them...
Joachim Trier's mother was a documentarian, his father a sound department tech, his grandfather a Cannes-selected filmmaker, and his distant cousin Lars von Trier, so is it any surprise that the feature debut of this Copenhagen-born, Norwegian-based director has already turned out to be one of the year's best imports? An invigoratingly kinetic punk rock ode to young intellectual camaraderie that's as funny and sexy as it is haunting and sad, "Reprise" knocks chronology and narrative structure on their standardized asses to detail the friendship between twentysomething writers Erik (Espen Klouman-Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie). Beginning with the two dreaming rebels standing at a mailbox about to ship their first novels to publishers, "Reprise" digressively dazzles in the moments long after, way before, and several hops in between as one becomes famous, the other hustles in his shadow, and the pressures of reality bring them...
- 5/14/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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