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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2024

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

Tracks of the Week 18.05.24

With his distinctive sound on the saxophone, a pulsating and oscillating rush of brass which in epic Odyssean fashion evokes at once the threshing and winnowing of wheat chaff and the inescapable propulsion of waves out at sea, Colin Stetson unveils the title track of his upcoming album The love it took to leave you. Billed as both his...

Shellac – To All Trains

The last Shellac album lands with almost shockingly poor taste just ten days after the untimely death of Steve Albini, which in a perverse way makes it rather apt. Albini may have renounced the 'edgelord' tendencies of his youth, accepting that 'I and others of my generation have not been held to task enough for words and behaviour that...