Wet Paint: Frank Ocean Moves Into a Storied Studio Building, Hong Kong Hits Dealers With New Quarantines, & More Art-World Gossip
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Frank Ocean out and about in Manhattan in April 2019. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images)
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The Eternal
Decades
In retrospect, the second and final album by this Manchester postpunk band seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis s suicide, which happened a few months before it was released. The band s reverberating mesh of minor-.
more »key lines and Curtis s tremorous bass voice are doomy enough on their own, and attention to the words reveals references to blacker-than-black stories by J.G. Ballard and Joseph Conrad; the void and its terrors were splitting Curtis apart from the inside. I put my trust in you, he sings, and his voice leaves no doubt that that trust has been betrayed. But the music, grim and powerful as it is, points to the direction the surviving members took as New Order, incorporating the mechanical gravity of club rhythms. Douglas Wolk
The CIA’s rebrand has been likened to designs that emerged from electronic music culture. We examine the use of club graphics by brands and organisations.