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...
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to...
From its birth in the eighties the Brazilian genre of funk carioca cast a wide net, pulling from samba soul, Miami bass and Latin freestyle, the chanted vocals and hybrid rhythms of...
Good tidings of great joy and to all people! This week Joyful Noise Recordings present their annual holiday special, with the likes of C.J. Boyd, Jad Fair, Oneida, and The Ophelias each...
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....
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...
On her third album Vulture Prince, the Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Arooj Aftab draws from Sufi devotionals and odes to separation and unrequited love, stretching out over a sound palette that encompasses the...
Chemtrails over the country club make for an especially languid afternoon. Taking the long road home leaves little time for babies or fools. This week’s collection of tracks features comebacks from Annie...