Tracks of the Week 02.03.24
The mood is often the first thing to come over on a Julia Holter song, a bristling and tenuous warmth or a soft-hued light which stays for a moment between glimmering, on...
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 30.09.23
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...
Tracks of the Week 02.09.23
After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb’een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative...
Tracks of the Week 05.08.23
Following up on the limpid rhythms, percussive riffs and shifting tectonics of Diatom Ribbons, which saw Kris Davis explore the hidden world of unicellular microalgae in the company of such luminaries as...
Tracks of the Week 15.07.23
‘The cock crows / But no queen rises’ begins ‘Depression Before Spring’ by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from...
Tracks of the Week 26.12.21
Good tidings of great joy and to all people! This week Joyful Noise Recordings present their annual holiday special, with the likes of C.J. Boyd, Jad Fair, Oneida, and The Ophelias each...
Tracks of the Week 11.12.21
This week the eminent South African jazz drummer Ayanda Sikade returns with a sophomore album dedicated to his grandmother, featuring his frequent collaborator Nduduzo Makhathini on piano, Simon Manana on alto saxophone,...
Tracks of the Week 14.08.21
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....