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Floating Points: Cascade
New album: Inspired by the dance culture of Manchester, cleverly crafted, evolving, clubby but intricate and supremely infectious work by the British electronica artist and producer Sam Shepherd
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Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
New album: After 2022’s mini-album solo, Afrikan Culture, the acclaimed and prolific British jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, known best for Sons of Kemet and the Comet Is Coming returns with a reset – swapping reeds for flutes, with an LP of delicate, experimental beauty, and featuring guests including Moses Sumney, André 3000, and Saul Williams
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Take your pick. Are your favourites here? Also check out Part 2 coming soon.
Favourite albums of 2021, part 1: Another difficult year for everyone, but from soul and jazz, electro-pop the experimental and avant-garde, an outstanding one for music releases, perhaps in part because out of diversity comes great art. Also feel free to explore Part 2, which is now available to view here.
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Promises more than fulfilled
Album review: This transcendent, astonishingly beautiful work, from a five-year collaboration, culminates in genre-spanning exquisite music over nine continuous movements that could easily top the best of the year
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Vagabon, aka Laetitia Tamko
This week’s selection includes Foals Part 2 to their acclaimed Part 1, Mark Lanegan going slightly goth, clever pop from Vagabon, extraordinary folk from Lankum, and entrancing electronica from Floating Points and Alice Hubble
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The sleeve of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Murder of the Universe
This week's selection guarantees taking you to new musical places: Beach House, Penguin Cafe & Cornelius, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jad Fair, Tenniscoats & Norman Blake, Floating Points and a reissue from Anne Briggs
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