Tracks of the Week 22.10.22
Live music as the scabrous experimental titans Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann, by turns bastions of blues-tinged noise rock and European free jazz or the avant-garde, unleash a double album from their vaunted...
Tracks of the Week 06.08.22
Stretching a simple conceit, this week Panda Bear and Sonic Boom take on the 1963 smash hit ‘Denise’ by Randy & the Rainbows, spinning the opening bars of the doo-wop classic into...
Tracks of the Week 19.02.22
This week the improvisational pianist Tigran Hamasyan turns from the Armenian folk tradition to embrace jazz standards by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, and Jerome Kern. Heavee returns to Hyperdub...
Tracks of the Week 18.09.21
On the album Sediments We Move, set for release next month on New Amsterdam Records, the singer and saxophonist Charlotte Greve and her art-pop quartet Wood River join forces with Cantus Domus,...
Tracks of the Week 29.05.21
Exodus, the first posthumous album by DMX, shows the late rapper’s penchant for collaboration, featuring a bluesy cut from Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway the Machine of Griselda Records alongside...
Tracks of the Week 30.01.21
FKA twigs and Headie One grapple with judgement and self-love, from recriminations of the heart to the hazards of systemic racism. Celebrity and the perils of trying to play it cool are...
Tracks of the Week 21.11.20
JFDR immerses and forgets, Tierra Whack chops peppers and onions, Okay Kaya covers Shania Twain, and Shameika shows potential. Rico Nasty teams up with Don Toliver and Gucci Mane, while DaBaby and...
Tracks of the Week 05.09.20
After releasing her latest record on Juneteenth, Teyana Taylor uses still photographs and archival footage to reconstruct a history of black grief, through all the strife and tears still holding out hope...
Tracks of the Week 15.08.20
A trio of women stand tall atop this week’s roundup, as Ciara puts in the labour on her new video for ‘Rooted’, Rico Nasty gets gassy with one half of 100 gecs,...