Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
Seventeen years removed from his last studio album, the former OutKast frontman André 3000 says that ‘sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about...
Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and...
Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of...
Collaboration is the key word this week, as Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen light one up on an irresistible duet. Danny Brown leads the Bruiser Brigade alongside Bruiser Wolf, J.U.S, Fat...
On Breathe the jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith keeps the blue note alive, stretching out enough space for some of Iggy Pop’s indelible soul stylings. On Haram, Armand Hammer cut through the...
JFDR immerses and forgets, Tierra Whack chops peppers and onions, Okay Kaya covers Shania Twain, and Shameika shows potential. Rico Nasty teams up with Don Toliver and Gucci Mane, while DaBaby and...
Lil Nas X seeks to catch lightning in a bottle, adding horror elements inspired by The Matrix, Blade, and ‘Thriller’ plus a verse from his namesake Nas to the controversial country-trap track...
Packed until laden with twenty-five new videos and songs, this iteration of tracks of the week might feel heavy enough to fall through the earth, but dense and weighty efforts from Grimes,...