Tracks of the Week 30.03.24
This week the composer Alex Weiser follows up his Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut album and all the days were purple – which set poetry to music from the lider of Anna Margolin and...
Tracks of the Week 24.02.24
There’s a bit of the Lizard King about ‘Work Song For A Scattered Past’, the opening salvo from the latest Fire! album Testament, with its souped-up swagger and whiskey-soaked, careening strut redolent...
Tracks of the Week 18.11.23
Seventeen years removed from his last studio album, the former OutKast frontman André 3000 says that ‘sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about...
Tracks of the Week 01.07.23
From its birth in the eighties the Brazilian genre of funk carioca cast a wide net, pulling from samba soul, Miami bass and Latin freestyle, the chanted vocals and hybrid rhythms of...
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 15.10.22
Sexually deceptive, curiously receptive, and twisting through 180 degrees as they unfold their flowers to the sun, this week Jófríður Ákadóttir wields the orchid as a symbol of rebirth as the Icelandic...
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,...
Tracks of the Week 28.05.22
From Cafe OTO and the Takuroku imprint which served to salvage the experimental shoots and salty minutiae of life under lockdown, now released on vinyl for the first time via bié Records...