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...
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 06.05.23
With its lilting grooves and wry lyrics on a perennial hot-button issue, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded ‘Nuclear War’ in 1982 the bandleader took the cut straight to Columbia Records,...
Tracks of the Week 15.04.23
From hyper-literate Oak Park the former National Youth Poet Laureate and fledgling songwriter Kara Jackson holds folk and country music in her thrall, cast through a captivating blend of brusque imagery, dolorous...