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Tracks of the Week 02.03.24

Tracks of the Week
The mood is often the first thing to come over on a Julia Holter song, a bristling and tenuous warmth or a soft-hued light which stays for a moment between glimmering, on repeated listenings giving way to subtle gradations of texture and colour. On the third single from her upcoming album Something in the Room She Moves, the singer...

Tracks of the Week 04.02.23

Tracks of the Week
Following the steady exhalations and springtime exultations of Regrowth, animated by Immanuel Wilkins on the alto saxophone, Lee Meadvin on guitar, Paul Cornish on keys, Nick Dunston on bass, and Connor Parks on drums and released on New Amsterdam Records as one of the best jazz albums of the past year, this week the trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever...

Tracks of the Week 02.04.22

Tracks of the Week
In early March the composer Hania Rani settled down by the piano and dwelt on the overwhelming turmoil of events in Ukraine, finding under her fingertips a portrait of grief in the form of 'Kyiv' whose proceeds will go towards the humanitarian crisis. From Ramallah at the heart of Palestine the producer Julmud bends space and time, sculpting dense...