In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal...
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
This week the Planet Mu honcho Mike Paradinas returns home with reflections on family life and the 25th anniversary of Lunatic Harness plus a weekend getaway which saw him ride Icelandic horses...
Cleaving her way through a bout of writer’s block with the aid of the percussionist Matt Chamberlain and producer Randall Dunn, this week Zola Jesus unveils her sixth studio album amid the...
With the crackle and hiss of an old blues record and a high-pitched caterwaul which lies somewhere between Grouper and Skip James, from the living room of her house in the seaside...
Bruce Springsteen sees ghosts, Sufjan Stevens finds ascension in immanence, and Oneohtrix Point Never puts on his driving goggles. Kodie Shane gets soaked by the rain, and while Fleet Foxes doff their...
From Matmos and the consuming flame of electronic assemblage, to Nubya Garcia generating deep grooves on the sax, to Maya Hawke and a gently crazed sweet-loving disposition, this selection of tracks of...
More tracks than you can shake a stick at or get through listening in time for next week, from the continent-spanning crime dramas of the London grime artist Ghetts, to the open...