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...
Tracks of the Week 29.07.23
Still navigating the quixotic charms and cavernous obsessions of Charles Baudelaire, whose insatiable lusts, death whorls and sometimes rhapsodic depictions of the lives of rag-pickers and blind men, prostitutes and gamblers scandalized...
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,...
Tracks of the Week 12.03.22
Fresh from feral lands, this week Laura Cannell takes flight on an album which figures the antiphonal call and response of birdsong. Soaring out over the marshes, furrowed fields, and scattered treetops...
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...
Tracks of the Week 15.01.22
‘Lush with a gentle, brackish breeze’ is how Jeremiah Chiu recalls the Åland Islands, an archipelago of around 6,500 skerries and islands which lie between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to...
Tracks of the Week 04.11.17
Yaeji – ‘Raingurl’ https://soundcloud.com/godmodemusic/yaeji-raingurl-godmode * * * Kodie Shane – ‘Kissing Pink’ * * * Rich The Kid – ‘New Freezer’ (feat. Kendrick Lamar) * * * N.E.R.D & Rihanna – ‘Lemon’...
Tracks of the Week 05.03.16
Mitski – ‘Your Best American Girl’ * * * Emel Mathlouthi – ‘À L’infini’ https://soundcloud.com/emel-mathlouthi/a-linfini * * * Andrew Bird – ‘Left Handed Kisses’ (feat. Fiona Apple) * * * Kikagaku Moyo...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Month (February 2016)
Kedr Livanskiy – ‘Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)’ Prefacing her debut EP January Sun – which arrived 19 February on 2MR, the label founded little over a year ago by Mike Simonetti, formerly of the Portland...