Tracks of the Week 09.03.24
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
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 17.09.22
With oblique references to ‘The Anchor Song’ and ‘Hyperballad’ plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk...
Tracks of the Week 07.05.22
Hailing from a world of sea ice and endangered species at the easternmost tip of Hokkaido, now honing her craft between studios in Berlin and her home base of London, and drawing...
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...