Simile.

Simile is a new weekly series by Cool Accidents fave/regular Paul Cumming aka Wax Volcanic that unravels current moments in music and follows the threads to some strange and strangely familiar places.

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Simile - Denial Of The Fittest

From ScotDrakula to Schopenhauer, this week Simile looks at denial and how it keeps us ticking...

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Simile - Out Of The Blue

2016 is the season of the surprise album. From Chance the Rapper to Sun Tzu, this week's Simile checks out the power of the Surprise.

2016 is the season of the surprise album. From Chance the Rapper to Sun Tzu, this week's Simile checks out the power of the Surprise.

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Simile - Curator/Creator

Beyoncé, Anhoni and Radiohead. This week in Simile, curation and creation in popular music, American art and Japanese poetry

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Simile - Metaphor-phosis

Simile: Metaphor-phosis. On Lemonade Beyoncé transforms a story of romantic dysfunction into something far larger than herself - this week we look at love that imitates life

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Simile - Another World

In this week's episode of 'Simile' - Were Prince and Bowie just visiting? That idea that pop music’s most revered are 'Otherworldly' is an idea as old as the Pharaohs.

Were Prince and Bowie just visiting? The idea that pop music’s most revered are 'Otherworldly' is an idea as old as the Pharaohs

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Simile - Unholy Matrimony

Like crop circles, super groups can either be otherworldly, or just dead, overworked ground. This week Paul Cumming considers everything from Kendrick Lamar to Jean Paul Sartre in his search for what makes a perfect collaboration.

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Simile - The Eternal Return (Of 2007)

In Simile Vol. 4 Paul Cumming takes us back to Daft Punk, Justice, JT, Fleet Foxes and Soulwax. And with a little help from Nietzsche looks at how we're still haunted by 2007.

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SIMILE - What’s In A Name? 

In this week's edition of 'Simile' Paul Cumming examines the pleasure and the paradox of being named and claimed by a hometown. Featuring Sia, Steven Spielberg, John Lennon...and Korn

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LOVED TO DEATH

Lauding the sanctity and purity of punk history is—much like a clanging Good Friday hangover—precisely not what it’s all about. From Justin Beiber’s Cobain impression to the Sex Pistols now-historic house, Paul Cumming wonders if punk rock should just sell out entirely so we can all move on.

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Simile - Unfinished Business

Simile is a new series by Cool Accidents regular Wax Volcanic that unravels current moments in music and follows the threads to some strange and strangely familiar places. This week he looks at Yeezy's constantly changing "Wolves".

“When is something finished? Paul Cumming investigates the work of Brahms, art vandalism by senior citizens and Kanye West, whose album The Life of Pablo, has been released worldwide, but not from the creative process”