Long misunderstood, even by his biggest fans, Lost Highway isn’t as impenetrable as it seems. This is not a typical film review. It’s a reflection on how we learn to watch—and feel—a film built like a feedback loop of dread, guilt, and denial.

Lana has always been a difficult figure for the public to pin down—too ironic to be sincere, too aestheticized to be real. Perhaps Blue Banisters is where Lana invites us to reconsider it all.

LA 92 can certainly be watched passively (i.e. as just an assemblage of video clips and sound bites; as riot porn) but its Truth lies in its ability to become the guillotine to our notions of history and progress.

Certainly one of the brightest albums out in 2017, Mike Hadreas brings his Perfume Genius project into new horizons which provide much love and light to such dark times.