Through thickets and plumes of fog using a plangent yet plummy blend of saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar, and percussion, this week the multi-instrumentalist Ashley Paul renders haunting smiles, fading thoughts, and...
‘Lush with a gentle, brackish breeze’ is how Jeremiah Chiu recalls the Åland Islands, an archipelago of around 6,500 skerries and islands which lie between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to...
FKA twigs and Headie One grapple with judgement and self-love, from recriminations of the heart to the hazards of systemic racism. Celebrity and the perils of trying to play it cool are...
Triplets, quartets, and quintets give this week’s selection of tracks a fuller figure, as Disclosure, Kehlani, and Syd team up for ‘Birthday’, Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, and WizKid provide the background...
The stunning new grindcore project DUMA from two veterans of the Nairobi metal scene, the multidisciplinary artist Duval Timothy from London by way of Sierra Leone, Klein and a coming to Jesus,...
FKA twigs divulges a final single before the release of MAGDALENE, Joe Pesci is still singing after all these years, there are unreleased and remastered radio sessions from Oneohtrix Point Never, Flying...
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...
Lo a lark, which gracefully flutters, and hovers then plummets and swallows and soars, here sustained by swelling strings and in the adopted form of Angel Olsen, most melodious from All Mirrors...