Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 26 March 2021. Tune-Yards have unleashed their fifth studio album, sketchy. The 11-track record includes the singles ‘hold yourself’. and ‘nowhere, man’. Tune-Yards’ last release i can feel you creep into my private life, was a self-reflexive question mark…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 20 November 2020. Camilla George follows her critically acclaimed debut album Isang with The People Could Fly, a hypnotising blend of Afrofuturism, hip-hop and jazz. The album is named after a book of African folktales that portrays the lives…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 6 November 2020. Ólafur Arnald’s new album – some kind of peace – was born out of the mantra: “we can’t control anything that happens to us. All we can do is control how we react to what life…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 9 October 2020. Future Islands have released their sixth album As Long As You Are via 4AD.As Long As You Are looks to the past as well as the future, confronting old ghosts and embracing a new hope. It…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 September 2020. The Ascension, the eighth studio album from Sufjan Stevens, is out now in digital format on Asthmatic Kitty Records via Inertia Music (physical on 2 October). The long-awaited follow-up to Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell, the album…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 18 September 2020. John Coltrane’s Giant Steps – the influential jazz saxophonist’s first album with Atlantic Records – continues to astound and inspire listeners 60 years after its release. Consistently lauded in music histories, Giant Steps was inducted into…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 11 September 2020. Sally Anne Morgan is an artist and multi-instrumentalist whose mastery of traditional folk forms is matched only by her ability to push the bounds of those forms into fresh, imaginative pastures. Known for her fiddle playing…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 4 September 2020. Bill Callahan is back with the Gold Record we always knew he had in him! Last summer, he returned from a silence of years — now, he’s raring to go with another new one already. The…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 28 August 2020. The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 21 August 2020. Nubya Garcia’s first official LP, Source, explores a multidimensional jazz sound layered with soul, afro-diasporic sounds and hints of dub-step along the way. It tells a deeply personal story, despite having no lyrics to accommodate it….
