Comics Writer Jamie S. Rich on Cubism
July 24th, 2007It’s always interesting when my two main interests collide like this. Rich was the editor in chief of Oni Press for a few very critical years and is still writing comics and novels. Here’s a link to the full review, but my favorite bit is below.
Cubism in Concert was shot last November in Mexico City as part of the tour to promote Fundamental, and though there is a good amount of attention paid to that album, the band has over twenty years of material to draw from for their set. Really, the “Cubism” title seems an appropriate description of this kind of musical construct: a band’s career represented in one sitting, all the facets of two decades of music represented in under two hours, viewing all angles at once and making each song equal on the timeline. I may just be pulling that out of my butt, but the Pet Shop is the workplace of rather smart Boys, and I wouldn’t put it past them.