Wound Down Inside

...uses more euphemistic terms—“stately” and “languid”—to describe the album’s lack of musical tension, intensification, or variation. Nearly every review I read remarked on the album’s “unwavering” (Snapes) pace: 11 songs,...

Beautiful Weapons

...Deadly Blessing, 1981 The Twine-game designer on interactive fiction, “trash spinning,” and how to destroy the “completely unredeemable” games culture Porpentine's newest Twine game, created to accompany this...