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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven's 'Heiliger Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 18.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of love. On his third album the South London artist JQ finds frolic instead in a seam of cultural detritus, from overheard conversations to YouTube makeup tutorials, advertisements...

Tracks of the Week 22.01.22

Tracks of the Week
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin strummable dulcimer, drums, and vocals conjure the condensed breath and curtailed destinies of a bitter conflict which after its springtime conclusion left a lingering cold. From the...