Articles by Alisha Mughal

Half Moon Run

A Blemish in the Great Light

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2019

At first listen, Half Moon Run's latest album, A Blemish in the Great Light, is inoffensive. The record sounds much like what the indie roc...

'Black and Blue' Exposes the Horror of Police Brutality

Directed by Deon Taylor

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2019

During the third act of Black and Blue, the audience applauded many times — it seemed the only way to expel the tension everyone's nerves w...

Cigarettes After Sex Are Purposefully in Their Feelings on 'Cry'

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2019

When Greg Gonzalez, founding member and vocalist of ambient-pop band Cigarettes After Sex, speaks, he does so in pictures.   Talking about...

Cigarettes After Sex

Cry

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2019

American ambient pop band Cigarettes After Sex have a deceptively simple way of doing things. Their 2017 EP was self-titled, and this full-...

'The Laundromat' Has Fun Letting the Rich Off the Hook

Directed Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2019

At one point in The Laundromat, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas — each in character as Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, respectively — tu...

Basement Revolver

Wax and Digital

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2019

Basement Revolver's new EP, Wax and Digital, is a wonderful playground of contradictions. It's a worthy and textured successor to their bea...

Lisa Prank

Perfect Love Song

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2019

Pop punk band Lisa Prank's latest album, Perfect Love Song, lands in a manner similar to the gut-punch of Hole's candy-coated "Hit So Hard....

'In the Shadow of the Moon' Squanders Genre-Bending Potential

Directed by Jim Mickle

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2019

Netflix's latest feature tells the story of a detective's obsession with a killer, but it could've been more.   Shot in Ontario, In the Sha...