MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Killing Joke impressively reassert their canon
Design by Mike Coles, who has created many of Killing Joke's iconic sleeve designs
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Killing Joke
Lord of Chaos EP
(Spinefarm)
THE artwork and video for the new Killing Joke release is based around a childlike cowboy figure, his face a cross between the Milky Bar Kid, theatre puppet and world leader. Complete with Stetson hat, missile in hand plus bullet belt, staring straight at the viewer, smiling.
Surrounded by classical images, suggesting the four horsemen of the apocalypse, fires in hell and a celebration of renaissance painting. All blended elements filtered through a heightened technicolour prism.
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