Tracks of the Week 17.09.22
With oblique references to ‘The Anchor Song’ and ‘Hyperballad’ plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk...
Tracks of the Week 16.07.22
Inspired by a diverse array of influences, from the trippy beats and lush strings of Bonobo, Ólafur Arnalds, and Moses Sumney to the apocalyptic explorations and post-bop meditations of Shabaka and the...
Tracks of the Week 03.07.21
Fashioned from vocal motifs first uttered in the cool caves of Java, recorded fifty kilometres north of Warsaw in the Modlin Fortress at the confluence of two rivers, on Lamunan the experimental...
Tracks of the Week 19.06.21
As the founder of the fabled Japanese bands After Dinner and Hoahio, the composer and vocalist Haco drew from an array of traditional instrumentation while pushing the boundaries of post-rock and avant-pop....
Tracks of the Week 05.06.21
On her second album for Hyperdub, the electronic artist Loraine James pours cold water on the pandemic-fuelled flames of anxiety, dousing grimy atmospherics and scattershot drill percussion in synth washes and vocalised...
Tracks of the Week 20.03.21
On ‘peak chroma’ the experimental composer claire rousay uses snippets of conversation, faintly melodious autotune, ambient droning and the sinking cello of Lia Kohl to linger on the cusp of the end...