Tracks of the Week 21.10.23

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...

Tracks of the Week 23.09.23

Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...

Tracks of the Week 26.11.22

With a ritual for every season, Laura Cannell armed with her signature overbow violin reunites with her fellow medievalist André Bosman, who conjures strains of American primitivism, Appalachian sprawl, coronach, and the...

Tracks of the Week 22.10.22

Live music as the scabrous experimental titans Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann, by turns bastions of blues-tinged noise rock and European free jazz or the avant-garde, unleash a double album from their vaunted...

Tracks of the Week 08.10.22

“The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience...

Tracks of the Week 24.09.22

Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, signalling the way before finding themselves subsumed by the throb and hum, as Björk tallies with familiar collaborators James Merry and Andrew Thomas Huang,...