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Alela Diane – Who’s Keeping Time?

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Alela Diane's new album Who's Keeping Time? finds the singer-songwriter and her ample band moving with a newfound sense of vigour and confidence. Hearty and headstrong, her music possesses a brisk or firm stomp and also swoons easily. Growing up in her own words among the 'winding rivers and golden hillsides' of Nevada City, on the western slopes of the...

Jolie Holland & Max Knouse – Wolf Dispatch

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Described as a 'spare little thing', on Wolf Dispatch the musicians Jolie Holland and Max Knouse pay tribute to Michael Hurley who died earlier this year at the age of 83. Cosy with the odd cackle of laughter and a suitable chill when their chosen material leads them to more feral or supernatural ends, the seven songs selected from...

Tracks of the Week 11.12.21

Tracks of the Week
This week the eminent South African jazz drummer Ayanda Sikade returns with a sophomore album dedicated to his grandmother, featuring his frequent collaborator Nduduzo Makhathini on piano, Simon Manana on alto saxophone, and Nhlanhla Radebe on double bass. The outsider folk icon Michael Hurley pays the price for boasting two lovers, amid the rambling basslines, plucked banjos, sighing pump...