Repeater’s Favourite Reads in 2020
As the year draws to a close, Team Repeater consider the state of their bookshelves and survey the year through their favourite reads.
Tariq Goddard and Carl Neville review John Carpenter at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
To celebrate Halloween, Repeater publisher and author of Nature and Necessity Tariq Goddard and Resolution Way author Carl Neville reviewed John Carpenter's live show for The Quietus! Everyone will have their favourite John Carpenter movie, ours is Escape From New York. Or
“A hell of a performance”—Warren Ellis reviews No Less Than Mystic
We were delighted to discover this wonderful review of John Medhurst's No Less Than Mystic in the newsletter of Warren Ellis (graphic novelist, writer, author of Normal, Gun Machine, Transmetropolitan, Red and much more). He's kindly given us permission to reprint
“We live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do”—Tristam Vivian Adams on Westworld
Sci-fi has a pedigree of exploring contemporary issues through the engaging gauze of societies and contexts far removed from painful familiarity. Inequality is explicated through different life forms, nuclear anxiety masquerades as fears of interstellar warfare, loneliness through the guise
On coming to metal in middle age – Tariq Goddard reviews Neurosis at Koko
by Tariq Goddard for the Quietus I came to extreme metal, or at least post-metal, sludge rock, or whatever experts in branding would describe Neurosis’s music as, late in life. I had been listening to music which sounded a bit like
A lot of libido, but no women — Eli Davies reviews Supersonic, the new Oasis documentary
Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of bombast in the new Oasis documentary Supersonic. Everybody’s busy going mad for it and making history and being the biggest and the best. In a lot of the interview footage there’s a kind of coked-up
Review: CHAOS 93 by Ocean Wisdom
Tariq Goddard delivers his verdict on Ocean Wisdom's debut album For listeners of a certain age, myself for example, who feel all of their forty-one years without yet regarding that as old, there exists an uncontrollable reflex when listening to music
Show them where you’re from: a trip round Darkstar’s Foam Island
When future historians come to make sense of our peculiarly disappointed moment (and good luck to them), some will no doubt wonder where the anger was. Every decade of the 20th century had its Marx-quoting middle classes and placard-bearers hailing
Where next for capitalism?
Dawn Foster reviews Paul Mason & Matt Ridley Is the rise of technology strengthening capitalism or tearing it down? Dawn Foster reviews two new books - PostCapitalism, by Paul Mason and The Evolution of Everything, by Matt Ridley. This piece is from the
“A long way to happiness” – Ramzy Alwakeel reviews the Pet Shop Boys’ Super
For all the Pet Shop Boys’ talk of having made "Electric, but more so", Super is a very different beast from its predecessor. Perhaps it’s because the duo enjoy playing with expectations, but there is a striking disconnect here between
