Tracks of the Week 11.09.21
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the...
Tracks of the Week 08.05.21
As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations at Jagjaguwar, this week Hypnotic Brass Ensemble announced This is a Mindfulness Drill, a thorough reimagining of the 1998 record Sapphie by Richard Youngs. The...
Tracks of the Week 27.06.20
The Spanish word ‘mequetrefe’, which roughly translates as ‘good-for-nothing’, can be applied equally to a lousy person or a shoddy product and carries other connotations, of nosiness, boisterousness, a sort of persistent...
Tracks of the Week 20.06.20
Society has seldom seemed so divided, but music might still possess the power to bring people together if only it wasn’t quite so much work. Rarely has music carried such onerous reading...
Tracks of the Week 23.05.20
Arca extrapolates time, Polo G interpolates ‘Changes’, and with Teyana Taylor we’re willing to bear sticking around, while Rina Sawayama sips and glimpses the mirror. BROCKHAMPTON continue to slip singles out under...
Tracks of the Week 16.05.20
Shapeshifting and stretching the boundaries of genre even while shut in, this week saw stellar new releases in the form of how i’m feeling now by Charli XCX and græ by Moses...
Tracks of the Week 04.04.20
On ‘Dear April’ swaddled by acoustics Frank Ocean makes do and mends, patching over and replenishing the ceaseless ruptures of the heart. On ‘M’errouh’ Emel Mathlouthi issues urgencies swept straight from the...
Tracks of the Week 22.02.20
New records by Moses Sumney, BlueBucksClan, Kamaiyah, King Krule, and Kodie Shane run the gamut from double albums through EPs and mixtapes. The Strokes double down on ‘Bad Decisions’, The Weeknd skulks...
Tracks of the Week 08.02.20
Lil Nas X seeks to catch lightning in a bottle, adding horror elements inspired by The Matrix, Blade, and ‘Thriller’ plus a verse from his namesake Nas to the controversial country-trap track...