the most with trippy 60s influences, and his solo recordings reveal the multicolour world inside his head. On the sophomore Tame Impala album,Lonerism, he plays around with vintage sounds, from analogue synths to fuzz guitars and DIY drumkits, which he’d later fuse with elements of trip-hop...
mike the prolific brooklyn rapper reflects on dislocation and homecoming with his most refined, spiritual-sounding album to date. by dash lewis january 31, 2025 waiting room kathryn mohr the oakland songwriter and field recordist’s sinister, atmospheric full-length debut is all the more unnerving ...
David Bowie—The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars—The influence of this recording on the future of rock music cannot be denied. InZiggy…,Bowiecreated an indelible character and storyline that pushed back rock’s goal line. Its effect on the glam and, later, pun...
WhileBeyoncéhas yet to take home GRAMMY Gold for Album Of The Year, she remains theartist with the most GRAMMY winsof all time. After all, this isn’t her first rodeo. Sabrina Carpenter — 'Short n' Sweet' "Oh, I leave quite an impression,"Sabrina Carpentercroons onShort n’ Sweet...
The endless re-invention and development as his music unfolds, together with the intensity of the contrapuntal textures, take the ear on an utterly unpredictable yet always completely immersive journey. Gawain and The Minotaur, the two operas I’m most familiar with, enveloped me in a primeval ...
We have now taken the concept much further with a new publication –The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World –a 100-page definitive guide to the most important and influential jazz albums that have gone on to change and shape the course of the music from the 1920s to the present day....
Donovan| 1966 —“A magnificent blend of folk, pop and rock all done in a psychedelic style,” says readerRob Henry. “One of the first psychedelic records (and) a huge influence on the Beatles.” The Irish singer-songwriter’s most successful album. ...
History tends to give this one a bad rap: With four side-long pieces based on Hindu Shashtric scriptures, it’s got to be dense and impenetrable, right? Wrong: Most ofTales From Topographic Oceansis as gorgeously melodic as anything Yes ever did, and the band charges hard, newly fortifie...
“world music,” this 1985 compilation of South African pop was a huge influence on Paul Simon’sGracelandthat still sounds jarringly fresh today. Full of funky, loping beats and gruff, Howling Wolf-style vocals (most prominently from “goat voiced” star Mahlathini). With a sweet track by...
On Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, the Creator entered his 30s with the most ebullient version of his confounding, agitating, engrossing music yet. With mixtape icon DJ Drama on board, the album struck a fragile peace with the hip-hop tradition Tyler had upended when he first disrupted ...