There’s a pleasing origin story behind this one. The session that became Eternal Gong Bath of the Sunbed Mind had been ...

There is a particular alchemy that occurs when a travelling veteran drops into a thriving local scene, and Love Walked In ...

The professional mourner is a curious figure: hired to grieve, yet the body doing the weeping cannot always tell the ...

Two Minds, the mesmerising second album from Shadowlands, invites the listener into a space where time seems suspended, where ...

For more than two decades, Zoe Rahman has occupied a distinctive place in British jazz, combining formidable technique with a deeply personal compositional voice. Since emerging with her Mercury Prize ...

Aarhus guitarist and composer Gorm Askjær last graced these pages in 2021 with Secret Safari’s First Movement, a record that ...

The sleeve is the first joke, and it’s a good one. The New Atomic dresses itself in the mushroom-cloud typography of Count ...

Vinyl has found some unlikely new routes to market, and this 140g LP arrives by one of the more interesting: a 2026 ...

Indonesia is not a country the Western soul narrative has ever paid much attention to, which says everything about the narrative and nothing about Indonesia. Surabaya alone has form. It was the city ...

The lineage of Polish jazz needs little introduction to anyone who has spent time with the music of Krzysztof Komeda, whose scores for Knife in the Water and Rosemary’s Baby carried a distinctly ...

There is a quiet confidence in musicians who feel no need to advertise their modernity, and it runs through most of Secret ...

Most new labels turn up clutching a mission statement, and most of those statements blur into one. Svale Records, freshly ...