Sleep-Inducing Music & TV: The Culture That Helps You Sleep
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Seal! Nine Inch Nails! Solange! Lady Gaga! Over the past 11 years, silken-voiced Hrishikesh Hirway has snagged a glut of heavyweights from across the musical spectrum to dissect their hits on his show Song Exploder unveiling near-unrecognisable demos and coming clean about their quirky behind-the-scenes habits (among them, Rivers Cuomo’s sprawling spreadsheet for Weezer song lyrics, organised by number of syllables).
With over 300 episodes, the chances of Hirway having exploded your favorite tune are high, and he’s even covered soundtracks including Severance and Dune. Between our hosts’ silken tones and some of pop’s brightest minds going deep into the teeniest details of their work, I defy you not to be thoroughly mellowed-out. Just don’t pop John Carpenter’s Halloween episode on before bed.Hannah J Davies, Guardian podcast critic
Film
A few years ago, I went to a small stuffy basement room in a cinema to watch a screening of Hirokazu Koreeda’s 1998 film After Life.It was shortly after his 2018 film Shoplifters was released.I, like many others, loved its twisty story about a family where not everything is as it seems. After Life was a different beast. The supernatural story, set in a countryside house that functions as a purgatory of sorts, follows a group of recently deceased people trying to move on.
It is indeed, like koreeda’s other films, beautifully shot, emotionally acute, and full of thoughtful reflections on what it means to… (The text is cut off here).
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