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 21.10.23
Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and...
Tracks of the Week 23.09.23
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
Tracks of the Week 09.09.23
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
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 25.06.22
Drawing inspiration from the desert retreats of Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Martin, the life and death of Sylvia Plath, and the reflexive cinema of Jean-Luc Godard while working from La Becque on...
Tracks of the Week 11.06.22
Tributes, reminiscences, and paid dues head up the playlist this week, as Elucid follows his stellar work with Billy Woods as one half of Armand Hammer with I Told Bessie in loving...
Tracks of the Week 30.10.21
Lucid and palpitating, navigating personal hardships while permeated by the shared traumas of the past, this week Lotic blends juddering club breakouts with crystalline vocal harmonies as her second album Water marks...