Tracks of the Week 12.02.22
Drawing from her Haitian heritage and adopted home of New Orleans, on her upcoming album Breaking The Thermometer the multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla adapts a theatrical performance based on the legacy of Radio...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2021
Blurring the boundaries between genres and traditional concepts of high and low art, turning the construct of world music inside out as popular forms suffuse only to be reanimated by life on...
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 04.09.21
Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and...
Tracks of the Week 08.05.21
As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations at Jagjaguwar, this week Hypnotic Brass Ensemble announced This is a Mindfulness Drill, a thorough reimagining of the 1998 record Sapphie by Richard Youngs. The...
Tracks of the Week 04.07.20
In the throes of protest and pandemic, with festivities dotted and distant while black deaths and police brutality stretched out the themes of Juneteenth, the Fourth of July and Independence Day this...
Tracks of the Week 23.05.20
Arca extrapolates time, Polo G interpolates ‘Changes’, and with Teyana Taylor we’re willing to bear sticking around, while Rina Sawayama sips and glimpses the mirror. BROCKHAMPTON continue to slip singles out under...
Tracks of the Week 16.05.20
Shapeshifting and stretching the boundaries of genre even while shut in, this week saw stellar new releases in the form of how i’m feeling now by Charli XCX and græ by Moses...
Tracks of the Week 09.05.20
Hayley Williams keeps on flogging as after two extended plays, a pollinated Petals for Armor floats fully-fledged and seedy through the air. On It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, Kehlani gets salty...