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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 26.08.23

Tracks of the Week
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 fallout while reshaping their surrounds, by 1989 the author Olzhas Suleimenov had helped to establish Nevada Semipalatinsk, one of the first anti-nuclear movements in the Soviet Union....

Tracks of the Week 15.07.23

Tracks of the Week
'The cock crows / But no queen rises' begins 'Depression Before Spring' by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from his debut collection Harmonium which was remaindered after selling just a hundred copies upon its publication by Knopf in 1923. An amber inversion, the track 'Moon Showed...