Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Not dissimilar to Shiniseki e no Unga, another album covered in this column, After Dinner’s Paradise of Replica is […]
Out from the Past: The Thief of Bagdad
In Out from the Past, Loser City writers discuss classic era films that were well-received and successful in their time but whose legacies have faded ever since. Up first is Chris Jones’ look back on The Thief of Bagdad, a hit from 1940 that won multiple Academy Awards but is now out of print […]
Fossil Records: Tim Maia’s Racional Vol. 2
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Though thought of as a national treasure in his home country, Tim Maia remains something of an obscurity in […]
Solving the Alex Ross Problem
For lots of people, the first and most obvious artist Alex Ross gets compared with is Norman Rockwell, but I think at this point a more fitting analogue might be director Robert Zemeckis, auteur of films like Forrest Gump and Castaway: beloved by consumers and many critics, yet also one who inspires a zealous hatred […]
Fossil Records: Guernica’s Shinseiki e no Unga
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Sometimes you write a review of something and it reads more like a weird bedtime story than a critical […]
Fossil Records: Lee Hazlewood’s Requiem for an Almost Lady
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. In the beginning there was nothing. But it was kinda fun to watch nothing grow. In the end there […]
Level Up is More Than a Mushroom, Not Yet a Tanooki Suit
It’s not uncommon for a film’s best and most memorable character to be the locale in which it takes place: the sweat drenched glitz and grime of a Michael Mann cityscape, the paradise-turned-Hell of WWII Polynesia in The Thin Red Line, the looming shadows of Jean-Pierre Melville’s noir vision of Paris. So too is the […]
Fossil Records: Aphrodite’s Child’s It’s Five O’Clock
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Aphrodite’s Child didn’t put out “fossil records” so much as they were a full blown “fossil band”: best known […]
Fossil Records: Igor Wakhevitch’s Hathor
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. There’s a certain type of music that I’ve taken to referring to as “story music”—stuff that lends itself to […]
Fossil Records: Theme from Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation
If My Mine’s Stone, discussed in this column two weeks back, is the type of ‘80s dance music which befits a party in a teen movie, the tracks found on Theme From Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation are more in tune with the cocaine-and-strippers aesthetic of the era, the type of music you might expect […]