Reviewing your parents' music collection
The music video to Janelle Monáe's 2010 single Cold War presents only a slither of the narrative richness of her debut album The ArchAndroid - and yet, it is a masterpiece that embraces simplicity and emotion to get to the core of this Afrofuturistic, genre-bending concept piece: the road to self-realisation and love is a… Continue reading Dealer’s choice: “The ArchAndroid” by Janelle Monáe
The moog synthesiser is an incredibly interesting instrument: as versatile as the human voice, essential to the rise of prog rock in the 1970s and still a hallmark for synthesiser virtuosity today. What a shame that one of its first popular instrumental compositions has been appropriated by a blue CGI frog that lived only to… Continue reading Music That You Can Moog To – Captain Cool Presents: “28 Big Ones” by Hot Butter
The Dad Anthology 