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Articles by Sean Keenan

Sean Keenan
About Sean Keenan
Sean Keenan used to write. Now he edits, and gets very annoyed about the word ‘ethereal’. Likely to bite anyone using the form ‘I’m loving….’. Don’t start him on the misuse of three-dot ellipses. Divides his time between mid-Spain and South-West France, like one of those bucktoothed, fur-clad minor-aristocracy ogresses you see in Hello magazine, only without the naff chandeliers. Twitter: @seaninspain
Daniel Barbiero
Sound

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015 Sean Keenan

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures (read more)

Ratatat
Sound

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015 Sean Keenan

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens! (read more)

Bendejo
Sound

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015 Sean Keenan

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub’s technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats. (read more)

Music for church cleaners feature
Sound

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015 Sean Keenan

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O’Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition (read more)

Mariano Rajoy
Society

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015 Sean Keenan

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power. (read more)

crystal bright the absolute elsewhere
Sound

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015 Sean Keenan

Bright’s voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish (read more)

Fujako
Sound

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015 Sean Keenan

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home (read more)

Sound

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015 Sean Keenan

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. (read more)

q07
Sound

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015 Sean Keenan

here is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging folk at Farmacia901 the reviewed version of the album is a 24-Bit Flac (read more)

brittle love
Sound

High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit

25/02/2015 Sean Keenan

aysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a favourite taunting point. What is the point of a technology which can reproduce sounds at a (read more)

Sound

Manns’ slightly plain voice is flawless, but uninspired.

19/02/2015 Sean Keenan

There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are. (read more)

Sound

Fogh Depot [Album]

12/02/2015 Sean Keenan

This is brooding jazz with an electronic twist or, if you prefer, brooding electronica with a jazz twist. (read more)

ipad by Viktor Hanacek
Society

Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

15/01/2015 Sean Keenan

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the ‘Slap Her!’ video send out the wrong message? (read more)

music fader by Drew Patrick
Sound

Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

10/01/2015 Sean Keenan

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway. (read more)

HawaiianShirtsInTheElectricChair
Society

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014 Sean Keenan

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati’s oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out (read more)

pumpkin by freedigitalphotos.net and franky242
Society

Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014 Sean Keenan

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe’en stems (read more)

Uneri, Pict 01
Art

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014 Sean Keenan

Art’s ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes. (read more)

Sound

Monomyth : Further

20/09/2014 Sean Keenan

Gusty keyboard swells, reel-like lead guitar figures and crescendo-borne power riffs building seemingly unstoppable momentum until they, well, stop. (read more)

Trioscapes
Sound

Trioscapes : Digital Dream Sequence

05/08/2014 Sean Keenan

Throbs with a primal, sweaty and utterly invigorating energy that transcends jazz, funk, metal or rock (read more)

Illustration from This is not a book about Gavin Turk
Art

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014 Sean Keenan

By expounding upon Turk’s themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault (read more)

Sound

Taylor McFerrin : Early Riser

22/05/2014 Sean Keenan

Wringing a sense of soul, warmth and jazz-like complexity out of sequencing, samples, sidechains and good old organic musicanship (read more)

Society

Summer Cooking : Mayonnaise

13/05/2014 Sean Keenan

Onwards, to the savoury custard of kings. (read more)

Society

Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014 Sean Keenan

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text. (read more)

Kelis by Olivia Malone
Sound

Kelis : Food

19/04/2014 Sean Keenan

An album that keeps its powder dry, thrills and teases, and on vocal performances such as ‘Biscuits n’ Gravy’, enthrals. Kelis, Food. Review (read more)

A picture of Teebs, Estara
Sound

Teebs : Estara

04/04/2014 Sean Keenan

Mandowa stamps his musical signature onto the record, weaving a living, breathing album of songs with none of the icy clinical detachment that might be expected of a producer’s album. (read more)

A promotional photo of Mike Vallely
Society

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014 Sean Keenan

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin. (read more)

A picture of commemorative UK coins with Kitchener
Society

An Emotive Wartime Journey. Yours for £2

04/01/2014 Sean Keenan

That the Royal Mint Advisory Committee chose to commemorate that ’emotive wartime journey’ with the iconic image of Lord Kitchener should come as no surprise. (read more)

a picture of tyrannia
Society

Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013 Sean Keenan

The value of De Niro’s writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader.
(read more)

A picture of Peru Maravilloso
Sound

Peru Maravilloso [Album]

08/11/2013 Sean Keenan

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed indigenous authenticity (read more)

A picture of The Presence LDN
Sound

The Presence LDN : Interview

23/10/2013 Sean Keenan

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart. (read more)

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