Melancholic ennui

AllMusic Staff Pick: The Dream Syndicate Medicine Show 1984 American Underground

A notorious critical and commercial disappointment upon its release in 1984, the Dream Syndicate’s second album, Medicine Show, has stood the test of time better than many would have expected. A radical creative detour from their instant classic The Days of Wine and Roses, these songs found Steve Wynn maturing as a songwriter and creating a dark, brooding ambiance that would blaze a trail for his future work.

AllMusic Staff Pick: Isolation Ward Point Final 2009 Pop/Rock

This Belgian post-punk act’s best efforts are smart examples of nervous, melancholic electronic/rock fusions. Plenty of comparison points can easily be drawn thanks to the keening vocals and bass/drum-heavy arrangements – Wire just before their first breakup, 17 Seconds-era Cure, the earliest work of the Passions, Modern English, and Cocteau Twins, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Pierre Edouard Baranowski, 1918, Amedeo Modigliani

Drawing for Etching II, 1916, Wassily Kandinsky

Medium: ink

The Flight of a Bird over the Plain III by Joan Miró, 1939, Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Evelyn Sharp, 1977 © 2016 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Medium: Oil on burlap

The Drunkard, 1912, Marc Chagall

Grille, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 1955 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Iron

Uncle Mitiai & Uncle Miniai, 1923, Marc Chagall