Imogen Reilly

Imogen Reilly is the magazine's culture critic. She writes about music, books, the visual arts, and the places where they collide with technology and capital. Her pieces sit at the intersection of criticism and reportage, and they tend to ask harder questions about taste, scene formation, and authorship than the field is generally comfortable with. She is suspicious of consensus and patient with ambivalence.

She came to writing after a decade working in and around the independent music industry, first as a publicist and later as a label A&R. That history gives her work a specific texture: she knows the economics underneath the art, and she does not romanticize either side. She writes about records the way someone who has watched a hundred album cycles writes about records — with both reverence and skepticism, often in the same sentence.

Reilly is based in Edinburgh and travels often. She is a fast writer and a slow editor, and she has a habit of holding pieces back for weeks if she does not yet trust their ending. She is the writer most likely on the masthead to file a piece about a record that does not yet exist, because she thinks the conversation around the artist is more revealing than the music itself.

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