Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
The production on that album is really cool, but it’s also a nostalgia album for me. had a period when I was young when I would be in my room all day listening to Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, trying to be like them. Her voice was incredible, and the songs are really good, too. I have a sweet tooth for good pop music. These days I get that from Rihanna.
In Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years, and first since his recovery from throat cancer, Karl Smith finds a record concerned with the varied states of human life and a sprawling piece of music less fixated on the task of world building than the more daunting prospect of penetrating the complexities of our own universe
While rounding up the darkest and brightest of recent releases from Nurse With Wound, Norman Westerberg and Maja S.K. Ratkje, Russell Cuzner receives an unexpected message that calls control into question, asking what role it plays not only in composing and playing, but also in listening... Nurse With Wound live shots by Samantha Hayley
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