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Tracks of the Week 08.01.22

Tracks of the Week
This week the shrouded South London producer Burial unspools a midwinter marvel in the form of the Antidawn extended play, where film samples and organ vamps sound out like the passing spectres of a church choir amid the vaporous slug of his washed-out cityscape. The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith realises an Ankhrasmation score alongside the guitarists Alex Varty and Henry...

Tracks of the Week 24.07.21

Tracks of the Week
When the Metropolitan Opera reopens in September, the occasion will be doubly historic after eighteen months in the dark. Some semblance of light at the end of a long tunnel, opening night will bring the Met's first performance of an opera by a black composer, in the form of Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Terence Blanchard. An...

Tracks of the Week 24.10.20

Tracks of the Week
Ariana Grande adopts capital positions, Yaeji settles down for some wintertime blues, Teyana Taylor breaks out in balladry, and Adrianne Lenker and The Weeknd enter the witching hour with tales of lovelorn romance. There are new albums from Bruce Springsteen, Junglepussy, BKTHERULA, and Ela Minus, and collaborations between Ghetts and Skepta, DeJ Loaf and Gunna, and Bill Callahan and...