22 min read 0 Sounds Longplayer: One Song, A Thousand Years, No Intermission Ex-Plain February 3, 2026 A quarter of a century ago, a Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that…
4 min read 2 Looks Pasts 80s Youth Culture in a Dying English Industrial Town Ex-Plain January 16, 2026 Between 1979 and 1989, photographer Christopher John Ball documented the people of Blackburn, the Lancashire industrial town that shaped his…
6 min read 0 Looks Pasts A City Dressing Itself: 90s London Fashion Through The Lens of Shoichi Aoki Ex-Plain January 13, 2026 Beginning the 80s, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki has quietly built one of the most revealing visual records of London street…
5 min read 0 Visions Surrealism Meets Class Divide: Louis Pohl Koseda’s Art Is What the UK Feels Like Right Now Ex-Plain June 21, 2025 London-based artist Louis Pohl Koseda is emerging as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of contemporary British life. His intricate,…
4 min read 0 Sounds Visions Rough and Rude: Uncovering the Vivid Raver Art of 90’s UK Garage Ex-Plain February 8, 2025 The frenetic visual culture of the classic UK jungle and other underground rave scenes is preserved in zine form.