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Bill Cooper

Manchester

Writer at Freelance

Writer (@Medium, @SpectrumCulture). Music Listener. Pop Culture Obsessive. YouTuber. Wanna work with me? 📬[email protected]

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  • 2 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

    “The best kind of prize is a surprise.” Though this quote comes from the oft-maligned 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp, the sentiment does hold water when it comes to music. The sole force from Portland, Oregon behind quickly, quickly, Graham Jonson would agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly, as he loves inserting what he calls “jump scares” into his music.

  • 3 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

    Quite a few bands are rediscovering ‘90s genres like shoegaze and lo-fi lately. There’s nothing wrong with looking to the past for inspiration, but if the band doesn’t find a way to stand out, they run the risk of becoming nothing more than a pale comparison, doomed to the realm of the forgettable. Sweden’s Clutter, a four-part collective creating what they call the “head-on collision between My Bloody Valentine and some angsty local indie band” falls into this camp.

  • 1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

    You’ve got to be a fool or have enormous confidence to say your band sounds like The Beatles in 2025. Perhaps both. But that’s what Perennial’s latest EP Perennial ‘65 claims to be drawing inspiration from, among other squads of ‘60s legends like The Kinks and The Who.

  • 2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

    Jazz can be anything these days. Mix it with hip-hop and you’ll get Kamasi Washington. Mix it with ambient and electronic music and you’ll have SML. Lately, if you mix it with video games, you’ll have Hiromi. Though Japanese musician Hiromi Uehara’s career choice might be a strange path for some jazz artists, it’s not unexpected for the jazz pianist. Sonicwonder, Uehara’s new band, is one of the many aurally diverse jazz projects that she’s been in over the years.

  • 2 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Bill Cooper

    How do you write an album expressing concern for the future without sounding preachy? Even if you try to only express it from your perspective, depending on your status within pop culture, you could appear like Moses atop Mount Sinai, brandishing The Ten Commandments.

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Bill @hopebillhelps
5 Apr 25

It's right next to the column of duruttis.

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literally a lab of stereos

Bill
Bill @hopebillhelps
5 Apr 25

Time to try out this blog thing again on a new platform. I wrote about Eddie Van Halen and how the male mythos of being a rock star isn't always what it's cracked up to be: https://t.co/qtJvBvcQMD

Bill
Bill @hopebillhelps
4 Apr 25

Today on Spectrum Culture, I wrote about Eno's ForeverAndEverNoMore, an album that illustrates the difficulty of writing about political and environmental issues. https://t.co/yFwgzzxWhi