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Culturedarm’s Albums of the Decade 2010s

Lists
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 cheek Azealia Banks professes to have all the answers, and when it comes to music she just might be the one. Beyond the Fantasea and Slay-Z mixtapes, Broke...

Upon the Wine Dark Sea: An Interview with Jolie Holland

Interviews
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 connection - Jolie Holland has released six albums of outstanding worth. Her distinctive voice has been admired by artists including Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and St. Vincent, and...

Culturedallroundman Playlists via YouTube

Music
Following what was effectively the birth of my YouTube channel last week - at youtube.com/culturedarm, upon the upload of my first video/podcast discussing the nineteenth-century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev and his poem 'Silentium!' - I have made public an initial batch of playlists. These are based on my 'Songs of the Month' for February; my list of the 'Fifteen Best...