“I really wanted white neon and white horses and weird fabrics blowing in the sun to be my kind of conceptual guidance.”

“All of the compositions are directed heavenward; they are like hallucinations, space, and transcendence of the body.”

Screenings parsed and evaluated: the good, the bad, the greasy

20 picks from the first three months of the year

From D∆WN and Xander Harris to Seth Graham and Downtown Boys

The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt

“I think it’s about picking underground elements and — it’s how you blend them.”

ft. D∆WN, Mumdance, Jlin, Leon Vynehall, Blanck Mass, and N.A.A.F.I

“It feels ancient in a lot of ways, it feels seeking, and finding some sort of source, or origin.”

“I write my best when I am emotionally stimulated by frustration, pain, anger…”

“I don’t really have any stigma about what’s ‘cheesy’ or not, to be honest.”

Pioneering music from the dawn of film

“I like to write songs that are like hearty soups with all these different ingredients and tastes floating around in them.”