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 05.11.22
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns...
Tracks of the Week 01.10.22
Following sessions with Francisco Mela and William Parker for the Brooklyn-based jazz bastion 577 Records, the Tennessee transplant Zoh Amba turns closer to home on her searing and searching solo album Bhakti....
Tracks of the Week 03.09.22
In the blistering August heat past the scorched remains of field fires which set ablaze the Waveney Valley, easing down narrow lanes and edging her way betwixt dotted meadows of immutable dairy,...
Tracks of the Week 29.01.22
Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical...
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 24.10.20
Ariana Grande adopts capital positions, Yaeji settles down for some wintertime blues, Teyana Taylor breaks out in balladry, and Adrianne Lenker and The Weeknd enter the witching hour with tales of lovelorn...