The Horrors – Luminous ( 2014)

Le Week-End (2013) , Roger Michell

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Amen Dunes – Love (2014)

The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (2014)

Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson and the Nothing (2014)

The Afghan Whigs – Do To The Beast (2014)

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On January 24th, Saul Goodman finally broke something that wasn’t bad. That day, Bob Odenkirk — who immortalized the notorious “Better Call Saul” character on the acclaimed TV show Breaking Bad — announced to the world that the Afghan Whigs were releasing their first new album in 16 years. Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, the Afghan Whigs proved one of the most individual bands to rise out of the post-Nirvana musical landscape. The group’s masterpieces — 1993′s Gentlemen and Black Love — forged brutally personal song cycles out of kinetic hard rock, soul swagger and outsider abandon in a way that didn’t resemble the grunge ubiquity of their brethren.

Les Carabiniers (1963) , Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard directed this brutal and purposefully harsh satire (adapted from a play by Benjamino Joppolo) which explores the grim folly of war. Ulysses (Marino Masé) and Michel Ange (Albert Juross) are a pair of thickheaded peasants living in a nameless country who receive a visit from a pair of military recruiters informing them the king wants a favor of them.

EMA – The Future’s Void (2014)

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If Past Life Martyred Saints was an inward exploration of human relationships and their toll, The Future’s Void catapults them out into space, both thematically and musically. The album meditates on universal themes of how we interact with the wider world and how that interaction is increasingly modified by technology. Through collaboration with Leif Shackelford on production duties, the sound of this record reflects these themes and instead of using electronics to create a polished, airless environment, Anderson’s techno-future thrashes strongly between harsh tones and paranoia, to beautiful colour bursts and mellow guitar strums.

The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams (2014)

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10 years on from their debut – and 4 from the lineup shuffle that produced 2010′s underwhelming Heaven Is Whenever – Brooklyn’s blue-collar rock heroes sound like a band recharged. There’s an immediacy here that’s disorienting – all pummelling drums, gritty, sailing riffs and Craig Finn’s bartender poetry set to spitfire. But after the knockout comes the pay-off. This is a big rock album that feels richer, more expansive, with every listen.

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I Am Yours (Iram Ha, 2013)

A second-generation Pakistani-Norwegian has to balance the shared custody of her son with her desire to be an actress and a woman in I Am Yours (Jeg er din), the impressively directed and acted feature debut of Iram Haq.Mina is a young single mother living in Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix. She is an Norwegian Pakistani with a troublesome relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for love and has relations to different men, however none of the relationships bearing any hope of lasting very long. So when Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film director, she falls head over heals in love.

The Exploding Girl (2009) , Bradley Rust Gray

Electric Litany – Enduring Days You Will Overcome (2014)

Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013) , Bruno Dumont

Writer/director Bruno Dumont draws inspiration from the correspondences between poet Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent) and his sister Camille (Juliette Binoche) to craft this biographical drama centering on Camille's struggle to be recognized as an artist while locked in a mental institution for 29 years.

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) , Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (The Story of Marie and Julien) stars Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a pair of ex-lovers who get back together after their lives change. Julien (Radziwilowicz) is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie (Béart) is a mysterious woman who does not bleed after being cut. Her boyfriend has died. Marie and Julien had once engaged in an affair when they were each involved with other people, and now that they have no emotional entanglements, they slowly begin a new relationship. This film started decades before as a project in Rivette's "Scenes From a Parallel Life" series and abandons the majority of the formal rules imposed by the filmmaker on the other films in the cycle.

Metronomy – Love Letters (2014)

The indie-pop world’s most cherished darlings have come in from the cold. Metronomy, after not releasing much since 2011′s The English Riviera, galloped back into our periphery ice-cool and bearing arms. Their triumphant return, Love Letters, is a far cry from the pop-smothered electronics on their last album, with the first snippet of the Devonshire foursome’s new material sounding like an infuriatingly everchanging melting pot of Fight Club OST drum machines, ’60s motown backing vox, lo-fi pop and the rickety click-clack of barebones ’80s electronica, probably helped by the analog fanatics at Toe Rag. It shouldn’t work, but the end result – probably due to mainman Joe Mount’s Midas fingers – is spectacular.

My Sad Captains – Best Of Times (2014)

My Sad Captains are the latest addition to the Bella Union family, bringing with them a third album that further defines their exquisitely tailored, subtly expressive and melodically radiant songcraft. Like the brilliant 1961 poem by the late Thom Gunn from which the London-based quartet takes its name, a sparingly deployed assemblage of words and emotions shows that less can be so much more.
The nine songs that comprise Best Of Times have an almost underplayed guitar-pop sensibility reminiscent of many classic indie bands of the 80s. But neither are they any kind of throwback, with suitably restrained and delicate shades of keyboards and a beautiful clarity of sound that’s distinctly 21st century.

Pure X – Angel (2014)

Pure X have resurfaced and signed with Fat Possum for their upcoming third album, Angel. Due April 1, the new LP follows last year’s fascinating but troubled Crawling Up the Stairs, a record primary songwriters Nate Grace and Jesse Jenkins described as “the arc of a personal descent into hell and the slow climb back out of it.”
As its title suggests, Angel will be a gentler affair, one that favors the latter part of the “psych-pop” tag. The album was recorded mostly live and set to tape over a period of five days in a century-old dance hall in rural central Texas.With the third album, and their first as a quartet, their previous creations have given way to a new found serenity, a calm which finds the band in its most potent, refined, and elemental form yet.

Errors of the Human Body (Eron Sheean, 2012)

Obsessively struggling to develop a cure for a rare genetic ailment, which caused the death of his infant son, Geneticist Geoff Burton, played by Michael Eklund from The Call, is forced to relocate to an isolated research facility in Dresden, Germany. Completely consumed by his research, Burton is on the brink of discovery but soon realizes that his own work may bear more consequences than he previously thought.

Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, 2013)

In "one of the most unexpected and inspiring movie pairings in recent memory (The Village Voice)," Jimmy P stars Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric in a true story about two very different men who build a unique and powerful bond through psychotherapy. A WWII vet plagued by excruciating headaches, dizzy spells, hearing loss and bizarre dreams, Jimmy Picard (Del Toro), a Native American Blackfoot, is labeled schizophrenic by a military hospital confused by his condition.  

Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (2014)

Dean Wareham – Dean Wareham (2014)

Tom Hickox – War Peace And Diplomacy (2014)

Tumblewild – When The World Had Four Corners (2014)

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Creepoid – Creepoid (2014)

The fact that it’s been three years since Creepoid has released a full-length album hasn’t been dealt with easily. But if a struggle brought their desolate self-titled LP to fruition, the music within displays how the band has been feeling about it as well.
It’s an album full of space in the sense so sparse at times that a feeling of loneliness overtakes the nerves. It’s as if control has been lost. It makes the listener feel like a character in the grand scheme of the album, which is complete with peaks and valleys, pieced together in movements.

Kandle – In Flames (2014)

Onetime Blue Violets member Kandle went solo back in 2012 for a self-titled EP, and now a couple of years later, she’s ready to drop her full-length solo debut. In Flames was co-produced by Kandle’s father, Neil Osborne of 54-40, and she confesses that the Can-rock veteran wasn’t an entirely willing participant in the sessions.
After Kandle and her guitar player, Sam Goldberg of Broken Social Scene (who also co-produced In Flames), recorded the bed tracks at Greenhouse Studio in Vancouver, the Montreal-based singer went to Victoria, BC, to lay down the rest of her parts. The result is a dark collection, full of minor key ballads and noir-hued alt-country. But despite the downcast mood, Kandle explains that the album title is decidedly tongue-in-cheek.

Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else (2014)

Cloud Nothings release Here and Nowhere Else, the followup to 2012′s excellent Attack on Memory, on April 1 via Carpark and Mom + Pop.Frontman Dylan Baldi wrote the eight-track album as the band toured the world in support of Attack on Memory.
”I was feeling pretty good about everything so I just made stuff that made me happy,” Baldi explained in an issued statement. “I had nothing to be angry about really so the approach was more positive and less ‘fuck everything.’ I just sat down and played until I found something that I like, because I was finally in a position to do that.”

Joan as Police Woman – The Classic (2014)

Christina Vantzou – No.2 (2014)

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Ava Luna – Electric Balloon (2014)

The Mary Onettes – Portico EP (2014)

Bob Mould – Workbook 25 (2014)

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson,2014)
soundtrack composed by Alexandre Desplat

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Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014)

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Chambers (2014)

Great Ytene – Great Ytene (2014)

Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962) , Robert Bresson

Characteristically breaking with tradition, director Robert Bresson presents a realistic, unique view of the life and death of Joan of Arc. Using a script based on the actual transcript notes taken during her trial, Bresson focuses on the psychological and physical torture that Joan had to endure, showing how these techniques were used to break her resolve and cause her to eventually recant her faith. With impeccable historical accuracy Bresson re-creates the story of the peasant girl who, after leading an unsuccessful revolt against the government, was brought to trial, convicted of heresy, and burned as a witch.

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) , Robert Bresson

Though this interesting film was among many responsible for the critical success of French autuer Robert Bresson, it was by no means a commercial success. Slightly different than his other films, director Bresson utilized the contrasty photography of Philippe Agostini (Sylvie et le Fantome, Monde du Silence) and chose professional actors Paul Bernard (Lumiere D'ete), Maria Casares (Enfants du Paradis), and Elina Labourdette (Shanghai Drama) to star rather than non-professionals.

David Thomas Broughton & Juice Vocal Ensemble – Sliding the Same Way (2014)

After meeting at SXSW in 2011 Juice Vocal Ensemble and David Thomas Broughton kept in contact about possibly working together, but getting together is difficult for artists who are busy with their own projects, particularly if one is based in the Far East. Finally in 2013, during a couple of short trips back, David gathered the group in his home town of Otley to spend a few hours recording. Sliding the Same Way spans the hymnal to human beatbox, discord to angelic harmony, with lyrical themes displaying the weaknesses of men, via rural imagery and sombre love songs, to the decline of northern industry and pub brawls.
Broughton had some basic ideas; Juice had no idea what they would be faced with. After some short discussion and a little practise…

Nick Waterhouse – Holly (2014)

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Singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse, who impressed with his 2012 debut Time’s All Gone release LP Holly, due out in March of 2014. The album, produced by Waterhouse and Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids) is a cohesive selection of work that, presented together, tells a story.
“Thematically this record feels more like a novella, or poem with sections, or even a film, than a collection of songs,” said Waterhouse of the album. “It is a work of fiction with a protagonist, but also a floating omniscient narrator, and fragments of conversation from other characters.”
Waterhouse’s voice is ripped from the mid-’50s, with a slight reverb referencing the single-microphone recording era. As with so many classics of that era, he caps the song off with a werewolf howl followed by an aggressive organ solo, suggesting that not all games are fun and games.

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laiba Hazrat, six, a refugee from Afghanistan

Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen shot the picture, a portrait of Iaiba Hazrat, six, a refugee from Afghanistan living in a slum in Islamabad. It was from a series of 21 portraits of Iaiba and other refugee children all shot in Muheisen's quiet, direct, desaturated style.

A shocking image of Syria's brutal war

"Even the most horrific photos are not able to prevent wars happening,
 they remain decoration for our conscience"

Deserted Places

Why do images of abandoned Japanese island Hashima haunt us?

Images of abandonment, from decaying Detroit to an eerily empty island in Japan, seem to be endlessly fascinating to photographers and viewers. Why are we so drawn to these deserted places?

Hashima, an island near Nagasaki also known as Gunkanjima, was abandoned in 1974. 

Photograph: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre