Grief can have all sorts of effects on an person, and sometimes it manifests into something unto itself entirely. It had this effect on Sandra Meigs, a visual artist based in Victoria, BC, when, following her husband’s passing in 2010, she painted The Basement Panoramas to reflect and illustrate the stages of her grieving process.

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Theodor Adorno once famously wrote, “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.” As a lifelong student of communications theory, I take Adorno’s work very seriously and it’s taught me how to look at music through a critical lens. The same lens any creator of culture, in this case, Jesse Rose, should look through when creating a new piece of music (culture). Unfortunately his creation, The Whole Twelve Inches, is terrible. This entire record is incredibly outdated and is one giant snooze fest.

It merely takes a few seconds of the album to play until you are taken back to an era of music that has long past. I hate the term revival, but it is very fitting for the Temples. This english band’s work has, to me, all sounded as though it should be played, and enjoyed on a vinyl record. This album, Sun Structures, is no different.