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...
102. Azealia Banks – Broke with Expensive Taste (2014) From cowboy hats and mermaid tails to Illuminati imagery, Haitian advocacy, and spiritual symbolism around the Yoruba and Vodun, with her tongue sometimes in...
40. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet | 39. BICEP – BICEP | 38. Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life | 37. Colleen – A flame my love, a...
Kodie Shane – ‘Do You Love Me Now’ * * * SZA – ‘Supermodel’ * * * Rapsody – ‘Power’ (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Lance Skiiiwalker) * * * Zola Jesus – ‘Siphon’...
All new music for June’s iteration of ‘Songs of the Month’, featuring standout tracks from SZA, Kedr Livanskiy, DJDS, Zola Jesus, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Bomba Estéreo, Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton, plus many...
Last night Jolie Holland played at The Basement in York. A small and low-hanging room with a bar attached, located underneath the City Screen Picturehouse, the venue – which once seemed to focus...
From the beginning of Catalpa – emerging in 2003, with an admixture of folk and blues at once ethereal and stomping, and opening out on repeated listens to expose moments of the most intimate human...
Zhala – ‘Aerobic Lambada’ Connecting with the label soon after the release of her debut single, ‘Slippin’ Around’, in early 2012 – opening for Robyn on several occasions across 2013 – in...
Album of the Year Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea After the tightly drawn compositions of 2011’s Pint of Blood, Wine Dark Sea finds Jolie Holland no less composed, but its pieces rumble, scuzzy...