By Femi Morgan Olukorede Yishau’s Vault of Secrets is a robust offering of ten short stories that explore motifs of secrecy, infidelity, cosmopolitanism and Diasporic experiences. The author also explored subtle monologues and the impending shocks of vaulted secrets. One of the ways Olukorede Yishau resolves the revelations of secrets is through the letter writing […]
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I was trained in delivering bad news. I knew what to expect. I knew the questions that would come. I have learned the stages of grief. More importantly, I had done this before many times in the past 15 years.
This is my job and my responsibility, I told myself.
I got to work earlier than usual, diffused some comforting essential oils, and did my routine 10-minute morning meditation. Then I slowly sipped my tea and read through the reports once more. I thought about all the possible questions and combed through to see if I had missed anything and had a plan formulated.
The Editors Picks: The best releases of 2020 (July-December)
13.03.21 | Alex Sievers
Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
Having a powerful opener is sometimes all you need. And few opening songs in 2020 come as powerful as ‘
Open Wound‘ kicking off
Svalbard’s third album. What is overall a familiar, expected and perhaps unadventurous record for this U.K. band still cannot hope to diminish what a solid offering it was. Following an esteemed style of melodic hardcore, shoegaze, black metal and post-metal in the same school of thought as bands like
Envy,
Oathbreaker, and
Alcest, it’s a fucking consistent listen. Generating some of their best songs to date. It’s an impassioned album that can be read as either being about feeling like death might cure one’s own mental anguish; individuals – artists, actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians, your mate down the road – getting placed upon tall golden pedestals once they shuffle off this mortal coi