Christian is zchak
Norfolk, UK
Joined January 2022
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Following the advice of the marketing team here at An Acute Case and sharing every, er, 14th column. Trust the experts. Featuring: The Human Hearts, MJ Lenderman, A. Savage, Todd Snider, and David Murray/Questlove/Ray Angry.
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I'm not about to apologise because I take my cue from old white guys.
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The great albums are coming thick and fast now, though opinion is divided on how to indicate a collaboration. Multiplication sign or ampersand? Toughie.
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"Willie Nelson is the moon" is a conspiracy theory I could get behind. Also featuring boygenius, PinkPantheress, Emperor X, and Lori McKenna/Barry Dean/Luke Laird
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Meanwhile, farmers on all sides are muck-spreading (pig shit, I think), this blackbird refuses to build her nest anywhere other than above our door, and the man opposite is doing mechanical things to the tractor in his drive (blue with orange wheels)
Reviews of Fever Ray, Mach-Hommy, Quasi, and two albums by Star Feminine Band (released before any of them are out of their teens and before one of them has even reached her teens)
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Two chapters in to Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp is already my hero. Time (and sixty-five more chapters) will tell if that's misjudged
A couple of hyperpop geniuses, plus Miley Cyrus' songwriting advance, Iris Dement's liberal orthodoxy, Caroline Polachek's search for connection, and Sam Smith's entrenched tastefulness.
An Acute Case: 31 March 2023 open.substack.com/pub/christ…
In which I disprove claims that Bono increases self-doubt among millennial Dubliners. The real culprit: probably that thing in your hand.
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I've waited half my life for a version of Match of the Day without the commentator and pundit guff. Now that day has come, it's been reduced to twenty minutes? I'm devastated.
South Africa, Algeria, Mali, Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan by way of Paris, country and blues by way of Nashville (obv), and Little Simz.
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Lots of albums it took me ages to come round to. Maybe it'll take you as long. Probably, you're already there. Featuring Body Type, Willi Carlisle, Stella Donnelly, Santigold, $ilkMoney, and Vince Staples.
An Acute Case: 10 February 2023 open.substack.com/pub/christ…
Adeem The Artist's total commitment to considering the other side, plus Dr. John, Mama's Broke, Mammoth Penguins, Jensen McRae, and My Idea
An Acute Case: 27 January 2023 open.substack.com/pub/christ…
On Homeboy Sandman's insanely fecund 2022, plus Fanfare Ciocărlia, Fox Green, Lizzo, and billy woods
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In case you missed it, some music was released this year. Loads of it was amazing
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Aaron Raitiere and Pillbox Patti leave Lindeville, Tom Zé stays a genius, Dan Ex Machina grows up (painfully), and Taylor Swift displays her wiles.
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Is there any event more eagerly anticipated in my personal calendar? Honestly not sure there is
scurrilous, irresponsible, wordy, lengthy, unedited, an epistolary exercise masquerading as criticism: the 2022 pop music abstract is now live.
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Easy and uneasy listening from Kampala, Durban, London, whatever part of the internet c0ncernn comes from, and (from memory) NY, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Alabama
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Alex Turner as Martin Keown as David Bowie and Florence Shaw as not-Liz Truss, plus a bunch of other albums I like more than those two, including The Beths, The Front Bottoms, and Emperor X
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