I get quite excited about my Stack deliveries so the delay on this month's delivery built up my expectations to unreasonable heights. In the end, this month's Stack, huck, was alright. Its strapline is "radical culture" and its contents are a mixture of culture, especially music, and left-wing politics. It's an easy read – I read it from cover to cover on my way to work over a couple of days – and it was enjoyable, but it left me thinking of this song:
huck is a counterculture magazine that wants me to think corporate rock is for suckers, but comes with a £30 voucher for a shop where I can buy a £201 jacket. And I'm not sure it has any sense of irony about that.
Would I buy it again? I honestly don't know. I enjoyed it, I just thought it lacked self-awareness. Maybe if there was a particularly compelling cover story?
