Tracks of the Week 14.10.23
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...
Tracks of the Week 26.08.23
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to...
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 08.01.22
This week the shrouded South London producer Burial unspools a midwinter marvel in the form of the Antidawn extended play, where film samples and organ vamps sound out like the passing spectres...
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 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 05.06.21
On her second album for Hyperdub, the electronic artist Loraine James pours cold water on the pandemic-fuelled flames of anxiety, dousing grimy atmospherics and scattershot drill percussion in synth washes and vocalised...
Tracks of the Week 24.04.21
On her third album Vulture Prince, the Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Arooj Aftab draws from Sufi devotionals and odes to separation and unrequited love, stretching out over a sound palette that encompasses the...
Tracks of the Week 25.07.20
Invigorating new albums from Jessy Lanza, Jon Hassell, Flo Milli, katie dey, Skullcrusher, and Shirley Collins, palate cleansers from Prophet, METZ, and Fools, and a protest song from Bill Callahan help shape...