“Two well-regarded European dance-event promoters, Italy’s Life and Death and Spain’s Sónar, are behind this showcase, which features eight d.j.s, five live performances, and all sorts of decorative extras—a fine snapshot of the current dance-music underground. “
“ There remains something powerful about black musicians creating outside the bounds of genre, and Yves Tumor’s artistic impulses are as sonically defiant as they are destructive. ‘ Heaven to a Tortured Mind’ is a passionate world unto itself, an album that converts enigma into star power and strikes a potent balance between the cerebral and the visceral.“
“Harriet, the protagonist of Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, ‘ The Fifth Child,’ has a terrible feeling about her youngest son. Even in the womb, Ben’s movements seem to her less like signs of life than acts of aggression.”