The Brown Note Movie Review

The sequel The Woman King apparently. But seriously not good.

Not, apparently, Black Panther 2 Electric Boogalaoo but a different film entirely. And a lot more fun.

The Rock makes The Eternals but funnier and faster, at times, which is something I guess.

Which indeed it is, featuring underappreciated efforts from Suns Signature, Indio Sparke, Chief Keef, Spiritualised, Tomu DJ, Just Mustard and The Afghan Whigs.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Plus lambasting ever redundant critics year end lists of films no one has seen.

Ahhh, Neil, my old friend - you get the last album review of the year and what an intriguing one it is, amongst the EIGHT Neil Young albums to come out in 2022. Compared to the good if not outstanding, Barn, released at the start of the year (also with Crazy Horse) what stands this out most from a serviceable recent run of new albums, is a ton of personality. It's all done with such wild abandon, with zero concessions to anyone, it almost feels related to something like, Tonight's The Night.

The second album, after the spectral wonder of her first, Echo, has been damned with faint praise but for me is continually elevated by the sheer number of immediate choruses and melodies, outweighing it not being experimental or varied enough. Here the astonishing voice, married to a raft of really big tunes makes it one of the albums of the year for me.

The most misunderstood film of the year. David O. Russell certainly had a massive critical comedown - after the likes of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle - with this star studded, borderline historical farce. Everything about this film is slightly off kilter and I can appreciate why it bombed, but after a while of thinking it was indeed terrible, kinda adjusting to its hyper-weird language. It's one of the most bizarre films to have come out of a major studio and almost everything about it is strange. A possible future cult film I actually liked.

The Colombia-via-Berlin artists latest certain recalls NIcholas Jaar's Space Is Only Noise period and unsurprisingly as they've released on his label - but more so of a connection with Rosalia. It's like the alpha to Rosalia's much more art-house, MOTOMAI, omega.

Canada's Dan Snaith hits his most prominent album that isn't under the name Caribou, with this DJ mixtape in fell, collection of more up tempo, club-oriented tracks, akin to Nicholas Jaar doing his AAL project. Catnip (for me) references, early 90s techno, Orbital, UK garage, Four Tet, filter disco, and on... for a nearly (but not 100%) perfectly curated set.