Tag: Marcus Gilmore

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Brandon Seabrook has already delivered one of the best records and record titles of the year through the curious yet evocative Hellbent Daydream. A slower burn which captivated me as winter bit and springtime beckoned, the album featured an uncanny blend of spumy coast-hopping surf rock, steely and pensive chromaticism and spindly hoedowns where his banjo led the dance,...

For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

By the seventh minute of 'Voltaire', the opening track from the drummer Marcus Gilmore's album Journey to the New which was captured live over successive nights in the summer of 2024 at the Village Vanguard, the ensemble has established such a slow-moving and thoroughly beguiling air that almost anything else would feel like a jolt or a rupture. Through...