Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023
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...
Tracks of the Week 30.09.23
Billed as an ‘illogical period piece’ after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his...
Tracks of the Week 23.09.23
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
Tracks of the Week 09.09.23
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
Tracks of the Week 17.06.23
Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning...
Culturedarm’s Albums of the Year 2015
35. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late | 34. Peaches – Rub | 33. Young Thug – Barter 6 | 32. Jeremih – Late Nights: The Album | 31. Ian...