On this episode we talk art, difficulty and emperor’s new clothes syndrome. As always, Murdofleur is asking the questions that need asked: do artists really expect us to take what they do seriously? How far’s art comparable to a razorblade down a waterslide? And what can contemporary architecture learn from The Shagg’s bracingly subnormal spin on rock’n'roll?
Along the way there’s plenty of music, from easy listening to transpacific harp improv to a molasses-ized version of Show Me Love which is no less brilliant for having been a piece of piss to make. There’s also a bunch more easy-themed music in the Spotify playlist linked to on the right. Sit back and enjoy (or, in the case of the more ‘difficult’ selections, don’t so much enjoy as, like, submit to the flux and superflux of noise).
Spotify Playlist [link to spotify]
- Wire – The Other Window
- Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori – Transparent Things
- Dusty Springfield – I Had a Talk with My Man
- The Slits – Heard it Through the Grapevine
- AIDS-3D – Showmelove
- Memory Cassette – Last One Awake
- The Shaggs – Why Do I feel?
