Tracks of the Week 06.08.22
Stretching a simple conceit, this week Panda Bear and Sonic Boom take on the 1963 smash hit ‘Denise’ by Randy & the Rainbows, spinning the opening bars of the doo-wop classic into...
Tracks of the Week 18.12.21
This week Julia Holter joins the likes of Arca, Blood Orange, Joseph Shabason, and Kelsey Lu by reimagining the Keyboard Fantasies of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, drawing out the swirling builds and timely pastoral...
Tracks of the Week 14.08.21
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....
Tracks of the Week 17.10.20
Chemtrails over the country club make for an especially languid afternoon. Taking the long road home leaves little time for babies or fools. This week’s collection of tracks features comebacks from Annie...
Tracks of the Week 29.08.20
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...
Culturedarm’s Albums of the Decade 2010s
102. Azealia Banks – Broke with Expensive Taste (2014) From cowboy hats and mermaid tails to Illuminati imagery, Haitian advocacy, and spiritual symbolism around the Yoruba and Vodun, with her tongue sometimes in...
Culturedarm’s Albums of the Year 2018
50. Helena Hauff – Qualm | 49. Georgia Anne Muldrow – Overload | 48. Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red | 47. Autechre – NTS Sessions 1-4 | 46. Nicole Dollanganger...
Tracks of the Week 13.02.16
Beyoncé – ‘Formation’ * * * Gyptian – ‘All On Me (Diztortion Remix)’ (feat. Lady Leshurr) * * * Susanna – ‘Burning Sea’ * * * Wolf & Witnessing – ‘Acapulco’ *...
Culturedarm’s Albums of the Year 2015
35. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late | 34. Peaches – Rub | 33. Young Thug – Barter 6 | 32. Jeremih – Late Nights: The Album | 31. Ian...