August 2018 Archives

The album’s blurred washes of ambience conjure a sense of growing dread — but there’s beauty to be heard, as well.

Random links to make you a better web developer.

Also: Douglas Adams, Clint Eastwood, lots of Wes Anderson, Kevin Costner in Sherwood Forest, and one of the great car movies of all time.

Nostalgia-laden pastoral post-rock, artistic post-hardcore, raging feminist post hardcore, and a cosmic horror soundtrack.

New Society’s songs possess the sort of candor and bluntness you find in much of Christian industrial music.

There’s nevertheless something fascinating about the Belgian trio’s music, raw as it may be.

Part of me thinks they could have achieved the same status that Dead Artist Syndrome and Lifesavers Underground now enjoy in Christian circles.

These albums are a fascinating glimpse into a realm of Christian music that most people probably never even knew existed.

Also: Listening to silence, the downside of easy answers, the history of online awfulness, Facebook surveillance, Lovecraft’s bigotry, and women’s pockets.

Also: Google’s safe browsing technology, checking out CSS, hating open offices, and your poor time-tracking skills.

Also: The best TV episodes, Hannah Gadsby, Beach House, The Fantastic Four, pre-human civilizations, Facebook’s evil, and Bible apps.

Chakraborty’s novel finds inspiration in Islamic and Middle-Eastern religion and culture for its exotic world-building.

Make it so.