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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
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 Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 30.09.23

Tracks of the Week
Billed as an 'illogical period piece' after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his own canon as much as the bricolage of seventies prog or early-nineties slacker rock, from the syrupy chopped and screwed eighties samples of Eccojams, which set the...

Tracks of the Week 05.02.22

Tracks of the Week
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 town of Fremantle in Western Australia, Tiger Hutchence-Geldof goes under the name Heavenly for a heartfelt and potent tribute to her sister Peaches. Liz Harris and Jefre...