Tracks of the Week 08.01.22
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...
Tracks of the Week 24.07.21
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...
Tracks of the Week 24.10.20
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...
Tracks of the Week 25.07.20
Invigorating new albums from Jessy Lanza, Jon Hassell, Flo Milli, katie dey, Skullcrusher, and Shirley Collins, palate cleansers from Prophet, METZ, and Fools, and a protest song from Bill Callahan help shape...
Tracks of the Week 09.05.20
Hayley Williams keeps on flogging as after two extended plays, a pollinated Petals for Armor floats fully-fledged and seedy through the air. On It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, Kehlani gets salty...
Tracks of the Week 11.04.20
RMR and Marti lean into lustful R&B, Avey Tare and The Dream Syndicate abound in scuzzy psychedelia, Clarice Jensen and The Soft Pink Truth experience life in a low-humming key, and Rico...
Tracks of the Week 28.03.20
Like a number of his near contemporaries, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan continues to release music at a steady pace, somehow more grizzled than most even...
Tracks of the Week 21.03.20
Coronavirus can’t stop the music but inevitably colours the act of listening, whether distending the walls, heightening the sense of claustrophobia, or channelling the mind to sunnier climes. Amid new music from...
Tracks of the Week 22.02.20
New records by Moses Sumney, BlueBucksClan, Kamaiyah, King Krule, and Kodie Shane run the gamut from double albums through EPs and mixtapes. The Strokes double down on ‘Bad Decisions’, The Weeknd skulks...