Tracks of the Week 22.07.23
What’s an expanding universe? An ineluctable outpouring of general relativity, a spatial property, a shift of light observed through the telescope as distant galaxies stretch farther away? Is it Moon landings and...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
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 20.11.21
After four recording sessions from Topanga Canyon to the Rocky Mountains, shadowed by crackling fires and train whistles and fortified by ritualistic dips in ice-cold creeks, Big Thief officially unveil Dragon New...
Tracks of the Week 09.10.21
On an album of trenchant lyricism and cultural cross-pollination, the singer Myriam Gendron reinterprets traditional music from the United States, France, and Quebec. Reworking old folk songs with a contemporary resonance, combining...
Tracks of the Week 11.09.21
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the...
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....