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Tracks of the Week 12.08.23

Tracks of the Week
In the fall of 2020 in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles, the drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by the guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for the first in-person recording session any of the participants had mustered as an ensemble since the start of the pandemic. Some of the resulting music appeared on Panamá 77,...

Tracks of the Week 27.02.21

Tracks of the Week
Honing in on the abandoned port town of Moynaq, the violinist and composer Galya Bisengalieva spotlights the shrinking of the Aral Sea. On her twelfth studio album Mia Doi Todd captures the vogue for shanties, while turning ancient myth and modernist Brazilian fiction in the steady direction of contemporary themes. Shelley FKA DRAM mounts a comeback. Noname spritzes a...

Tracks of the Week 20.06.20

Tracks of the Week
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 lists. Noname has emerged as one of rap's most eloquent activists, whether dissecting capitalism and colonialism, supporting Black Lives Matter, or advocating prison reform, and she's even...