Tracks of the Week 16.03.24
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they’d veer...
Devon Welsh – Come With Me If You Want To Live
Devon Welsh has been searching for a sound ever since the breakup of Majical Cloudz, and whether it was the tremulous saxophone loops and strings of Dream Songs, the tenuous sparsity of True Love or...
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 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Tracks of the Week 06.03.21
Selena Gomez and DJ Snake dabble in jealousy, Devon Welsh takes a bite out of the Big Apple and departs with an upset stomach, while Chance the Rapper strives to separate heart...
Tracks of the Week 01.08.20
In a world that teeters on the brink of exhaustion, Koffee strains to withstand all the pressure, Brandy and Alanis Morissette precariously balance hunger and heartache with lack of sleep, while even...
Cultureteca 01.12.19
On Monday LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced that it had agreed to buy the iconic jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $135 per share in cash, a deal which values Tiffany at...
Cultureteca 24.11.19
When the Wallace Collection in London was bequeathed to the nation in 1897, one of the conditions of the bequest was that no work should ever leave the collection, but should remain...
Tracks of the Week 12.10.19
The closing song from Devon Welsh’s new album True Love, a characteristically urgent and infectious blend of surf pop with a kinetic post-punk sensibility. Cosmic metal courtesy of Blood Incantation. Bass-driven techno...