Tracks of the Week 24.09.22
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,...
Tracks of the Week 17.09.22
With oblique references to ‘The Anchor Song’ and ‘Hyperballad’ plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk...
Tracks of the Week 23.07.22
Translating the lilting rhythms of the essayist Marilynne Robinson before skirting the scattered fragments and billowing torrents of language like Nimrod tripping through his Tower of Babel headlong, this week Caroline Shaw...
Tracks of the Week 25.06.22
Drawing inspiration from the desert retreats of Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Martin, the life and death of Sylvia Plath, and the reflexive cinema of Jean-Luc Godard while working from La Becque on...
Tracks of the Week 01.01.21
The violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis wind down These Feral Lands by stepping inside the Glasgow University Chapel, whose choir recite a thoroughly reworked version of the sixteenth-century Coventry Carol...
Tracks of the Week 20.11.21
After four recording sessions from Topanga Canyon to the Rocky Mountains, shadowed by crackling fires and train whistles and fortified by ritualistic dips in ice-cold creeks, Big Thief officially unveil Dragon New...
Tracks of the Week 18.09.21
On the album Sediments We Move, set for release next month on New Amsterdam Records, the singer and saxophonist Charlotte Greve and her art-pop quartet Wood River join forces with Cantus Domus,...
Tracks of the Week 01.08.20
In a world that teeters on the brink of exhaustion, Koffee strains to withstand all the pressure, Brandy and Alanis Morissette precariously balance hunger and heartache with lack of sleep, while even...