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 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 29.07.23
Still navigating the quixotic charms and cavernous obsessions of Charles Baudelaire, whose insatiable lusts, death whorls and sometimes rhapsodic depictions of the lives of rag-pickers and blind men, prostitutes and gamblers scandalized...
Tracks of the Week 16.10.21
Shorn of her musical companion, the bassist Elizabeth Hart hunkered down with the remaining members of Psychic Ills to pay tribute to Tres Warren, their lead vocalist and guitarist who died last...
Tracks of the Week 27.02.21
Honing in on the abandoned port town of Moynaq, the violinist and composer Galya Bisengalieva spotlights the shrinking of the Aral Sea. On her twelfth studio album Mia Doi Todd captures the...
Tracks of the Week 31.10.20
In lieu of a festival edition, Berlin Atonal revives its legendary imprint for the five-part compilation More Light. From Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin dusts off his ‘Midday Suite’. ANOHNI covers...
Tracks of the Week 05.09.20
After releasing her latest record on Juneteenth, Teyana Taylor uses still photographs and archival footage to reconstruct a history of black grief, through all the strife and tears still holding out hope...