Tracks of the Week 09.04.22
After travelling to the island of Kimitoön in the halcyon summer of 2019, where field recordings and acoustic experiments lent a bright and sometimes plaintive air to three days of studio material,...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 26.12.21
Good tidings of great joy and to all people! This week Joyful Noise Recordings present their annual holiday special, with the likes of C.J. Boyd, Jad Fair, Oneida, and The Ophelias each...
Tracks of the Week 04.12.21
This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano...
Tracks of the Week 13.11.21
This week Ethel Cain issues avowals of love in the form of a thirteen-minute drone swarm, citing as references the Whore of Babylon and an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror...
Tracks of the Week 06.11.21
From the foothills of Melbourne by way of London’s windswept alleys and terraced streets, Laila Sakini stretches out on the endless highway with a borrowed guitar, smeared samples, whinnying saxophone and bare-bones...
Tracks of the Week 09.10.21
On an album of trenchant lyricism and cultural cross-pollination, the singer Myriam Gendron reinterprets traditional music from the United States, France, and Quebec. Reworking old folk songs with a contemporary resonance, combining...
Tracks of the Week 02.10.21
Nine years after the staggered vocals and sunken synths of With U and Held stunned fans of sensual vaporwave, witch house, and bedroom R&B, the electronic producer Holy Other returns from an...
Tracks of the Week 23.01.21
Through smooth jazz and a steady recitation of anecdotes, from Saint Germain and the chakras to talk of sculpture in Queens, Cassandra Jenkins goes digging for gemstones and wraps her finds in...