Notes on this week’s issue:
1. The text under Goings On About Town’s "This Week" photo (portrait of Chelsea
Wolfe by Parker Day) contains a piquant line: “But it’s the layers of
dissonant, cold embellishments, like the acidic bass line on ‘After the Fall,’
from her 2015 album Abyss, that have
prickly experimentalists and jet-black metal fans flocking to her sets.” Who
wrote that? Is Sasha Frere-Jones back with the magazine? He has an ear for
“layers of dissonant, cold embellishments” and “acidic bass lines.” I remember
his "Brighter Tomorrow," in which he describes the Fuck Buttons’ first album as
“ill-tempered and thrilling—long, sharp drones accompanied by vocals that
sounded like they’d been driven through a small speaker to the point of
disintegration.”
2. Lauren Collins’s description of the Trumps' marriage made
me smile: “it is as blinged-out with male dominance as their penthouse is with
Louis XIV furniture” ("The Model American").
3. I relished the brilliant Bendik Kaltenborn illustration
for Emily Nussbaum’s "Hive Mind."
4. I made a note to see Luca Guadagnino’s new movie A
Bigger Splash, which Anthony Lane describes as “fiercely unrelaxing and
impossible to ignore” ("On the Rocks"). I enjoyed Guadagnino’s previous I Am
Love immensely.
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