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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Some recordings are made to be released; others simply happen and wait. A Timeless Place belongs firmly to the second kind.

I came to Current on CD late one evening with the headphones on, and cast off without quite meaning to. By the time the ...