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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...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Tracks of the Week 28.10.23

Tracks of the Week
After swapping the conservatory for the computer screen, the Catalan vocalist and pianist Marina Herlop was forced to play a waiting game as it took two years for her debut album Pripyat to be released. Picturing herself as a domestic gardener, a stubborn horticulturalist who might prune her ornamentals only after first raking the muck and planting some seeds,...