Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 27.11.21
Brandishing triumph out of the dying embers of romance, this week Molly Nilsson figures the fallen city of Pompeii as the gleaming and heartfelt coda to her tenth studio album. Penelope Trappes...
Tracks of the Week 06.11.21
From the foothills of Melbourne by way of London’s windswept alleys and terraced streets, Laila Sakini stretches out on the endless highway with a borrowed guitar, smeared samples, whinnying saxophone and bare-bones...
Tracks of the Week 04.09.21
Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and...