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...
Tracks of the Week 02.03.24
The mood is often the first thing to come over on a Julia Holter song, a bristling and tenuous warmth or a soft-hued light which stays for a moment between glimmering, on...
Tracks of the Week 10.02.24
From ‘Old Shep’ and ‘Old King’ to ‘Cracker Jack’ and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to...
Tracks of the Week 05.08.23
Following up on the limpid rhythms, percussive riffs and shifting tectonics of Diatom Ribbons, which saw Kris Davis explore the hidden world of unicellular microalgae in the company of such luminaries as...
Tracks of the Week 18.03.23
Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of...
Tracks of the Week 04.02.23
Following the steady exhalations and springtime exultations of Regrowth, animated by Immanuel Wilkins on the alto saxophone, Lee Meadvin on guitar, Paul Cornish on keys, Nick Dunston on bass, and Connor Parks...
Tracks of the Week 19.11.22
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from...
Tracks of the Week 22.10.22
Live music as the scabrous experimental titans Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann, by turns bastions of blues-tinged noise rock and European free jazz or the avant-garde, unleash a double album from their vaunted...
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...