Tracks of the Week 10.07.21
This week on Mythopoetics, Nandi Rose of Half Waif folds out shimmering synthpop under clear blue skies. Catching the light which reflects from shallow pools and bends through glass houses, buoyant in...
Tracks of the Week 26.06.21
This week on Icons the percussionist and composer Eli Keszler makes abstract expressionism out of the cultural detritus of New York. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the Superwolves together with Emmett...
Tracks of the Week 12.06.21
Summer breezes and blazing sirens fill the air this week, as Lorde loosens up by the beach, Haviah Mighty kindles the spirit of the George Floyd protests, and Tinashe brings some camo-clad...
Tracks of the Week 29.05.21
Exodus, the first posthumous album by DMX, shows the late rapper’s penchant for collaboration, featuring a bluesy cut from Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway the Machine of Griselda Records alongside...
Tracks of the Week 01.05.21
The frames of reference and sly subversions arrive preloaded on the screen: Marilyn Monroe with some of the accoutrements of glitching cyberspace, old Hollywood musicals buoyed by driving percussion, the blue lodge...
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 30.01.21
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...
Tracks of the Week 21.03.20
Coronavirus can’t stop the music but inevitably colours the act of listening, whether distending the walls, heightening the sense of claustrophobia, or channelling the mind to sunnier climes. Amid new music from...