Unknown Pleasures (Vinyl) Mario Testino Midnight Oil were among the

Midnight Oil were among the finest bands to emerge from Australia during the 1980s

New conversation with critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito

Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner

this album is littered with swerves and left turns

through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape her

Unknown Pleasures (Vinyl) Mario Testino Midnight Oil were among theIt even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.