2016
Albums of the Year: Autarkic - Can You Pass the Knife?Thursday, 22 December 2016
2016 has been a big year for Tel Aviv’s burgeoning underground scene. Acts including Red Axes, Moscoman and Naduve have produced endlessly inventive music at an impressive pace and on a range of labels. Of these, Disco Halal, run by Chen Mosco and... Read more... |
Albums of the Year: Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of EldersWednesday, 21 December 2016
The future direction of jazz has been the subject of anxious discussion for at least 50 years, and the last few have seen particular fervent speculation, usually provoked by another tedious “death of jazz” article. Fortunately, such pieces almost... Read more... |
Albums of the Year: Yves Tumor - Serpent MusicMonday, 19 December 2016
It's a cliché to say that interesting times make for interesting music – and frankly not much of a consolation. Good tunes don't really make the march of extremist, violent and delusional politics any more palatable – but 2016 really has been quite... Read more... |
Albums of the Year: Beyoncé - LemonadeSunday, 18 December 2016
When, back in October, Donald Trump sulked that his political opponent was being a “nasty woman”, little did he realise the cultural impact it would have.Those two words – a fit of pique that was impressive even amidst an ever-lengthening line of... Read more... |
Albums of the Year: Mikko Joensuu - Amen 1Saturday, 17 December 2016
Five new albums released over the year have dominated 2016: Marissa Nadler’s Strangers (May), Mikko Joensuu’s Amen 1 (June), Jessica Sligter’s A Sense of Growth (July), Arc Iris’s Moon Saloon (August) and Wolf People’s Ruins (November). Next year,... Read more... |
Albums of the Year: Xylaroo - SweetoothThursday, 15 December 2016
As the late Leonard Cohen once growled, “Everybody knows that the war is over/Everybody knows that the good guys lost.” That’s how 2016 felt. Perhaps the moment that encapsulated my year was standing in a very muddy Somerset field, two days after... Read more... |
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