3:AM Top 5: Pete Reilly
Pete Reilly is the force behind Soul Jazz Records (product pictured), one of our favourite labels, and he is listening to: 1. ‘Check It’ – Skream and Warrior Queen (Tempa) 2. ‘Informer’ – Lady Ann (Crazy Joe) 3. ‘Bad Boy Lick A New Shot’ – Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man and Ninja Ford (Greensleeves / […]
The Human War
The Human War — a short book written as a combination of prose poetry/dialogue, which therefore gives each and every sentence an elaborate, rhythmic yet dissonant weight. This significance to each staccato line betrays the protagonist’s adolescent angst as a meagre hysterical rant that rebuffs the reader’s close attention (perhaps intentionally), whilst mirroring the narrator’s alienation.
Heidi James takes a dissenting line on Noah Cicero‘s The Human War.