Apartment House – Morton Feldman: Violin and String Quartet (2023)
One of the greatest modernist composers of the 20th century, Morton Feldman often likened his music to studying the detail of Persian carpets, in which sequences of repeated shapes and colours create...
View ArticleBong Wish – Hazy Road (2023)
Hazy Road is the debut album from Bong Wish, the solo project of Palestinian-American artist Mariam Saleh. Former bassist for beloved garage rock band Fat Creeps, Saleh got her start in the Boston...
View ArticleSkids – Destination Düsseldorf (2023)
Richard Jobson may be the only original member left standing in first wave Scottish post-punkers, the Skids’ line up. But almost 45 years on from the release of their debut album, Sacred to Dance, the...
View ArticlePJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying (2023)
Drisk, drush, gawly, zun. Chammer, mampus, twiddicks, vog. It’s been seven years since Polly Harvey last released an album, but thanks to the expressive Dorset dialect clumped and scattered across I...
View ArticleTony Allen, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID018 (2023)
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s Jazz Is Dead continues its mission “to exalt the legacies of iconic musicians who have shaped the fabric of jazz across generations, genres and continents.” The...
View ArticleKeeley – Floating Above Everything Else (2023)
The concept of journeys informs the debut album by the Dublin band Keeley: everything from “train journeys, ferry journeys, the journey of a long-standing murder investigation, and the journey my own...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Merkur Spiel Arena, Düsseldorf, Jun...
Bruce Springsteen heated up around 43,000 fans in Düsseldorf with his greatest hits. In the Merkur Spiel-Arena, Springsteen and his legendary E Street Band pushed their physical limits for almost three...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 24 &...
Jun 24: 29-song set. “Lucky Town” and “Land of Hope and Dreams” return to the set. Four songs from 2020’s Letter to You: “Ghosts,” “Last Man Standing” and “I’ll See You in My Dreams.” “I’ll See You in...
View ArticleIsabel Rumble – Bird Be Brave (2023)
The debut album from one of Australia’s newest songwriters, Bird Be Brave was recorded with Tasmanian producer Luke Plumb. Isabel Rumble’s songwriting often cleverly connects human intimacy with...
View ArticleAizuri Quartet – Earthdrawn Skies (2023)
On its new album, Earthdrawn Skies, the Aizuri Quartet convincingly connects the dots in wildly diverse music stretching over eight centuries. There are moments of serene reverie, clamorous esprit and...
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