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...
Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal...
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
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...
Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, signalling the way before finding themselves subsumed by the throb and hum, as Björk tallies with familiar collaborators James Merry and Andrew Thomas Huang,...
Venturing out under his own name for Voices of Bishara, the Sons of Kemet and Smile drummer Tom Skinner drew inspiration from Abdul Wadud’s percussive approach to the cello and a jazz...
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,...
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin...
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises The generation-spanning album by the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra carries a...