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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
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 Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 22.07.23

Tracks of the Week
What's an expanding universe? An ineluctable outpouring of general relativity, a spatial property, a shift of light observed through the telescope as distant galaxies stretch farther away? Is it Moon landings and Mars living and Voyager probes destined to wander eternally the Milky Way? Or can the outward manifestations of an expanding universe be more mundane? Eggs boiling in...

Tracks of the Week 06.05.23

Tracks of the Week
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, thoroughly convinced that he had a hit on his hands. That summer New York City played host to the largest anti-nuclear protest to date and one of...