In Depth by James Knight
Next week, These New Puritans, The Teenagers (pictured) and Crystal Castles get the Vice Unitaur show on the road, hitting a number of the nation's students 'tween the eyes with some hot-buzzin' new music. DiS asks who's playing the jock role on tour»
Review
by James Knight
Some records are impossible to judge objectively outside of the context that they come cloaked in. The critical vacuum that some argue should exist is an idealised impossibility. It is the framing power of context and the juxtopositional relationships that sprawl between records and their creators that allows for criticism to exist. With no common reference or point of comparison it becomes difficult to posit the album in a place of communal understanding...»