Michael Sumsion takes stock and presents his personal selection of the Best Tracks of 2019, from cyber-soul to Americana, encompassing brooding ballads, spacey avant-jazz reverie and oddball folk. 10. TYLER, THE CREATOR: Puppet Tyler Okonma aka rapper, producer, director, songwriter and fashion designer Tyler, The Creator, wowed fans and critics alike this year with his … [Read more...] about The Best Tracks of 2019
Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen: All Mirrors – Review
Angel Olsen unleashes a brooding, expansive and boundless new record that dazzles and engrosses the listener with its colourful and powerful production and arrangements. Ever since her breakthrough in 2012, the Asheville-based singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has cultivated a distinctive niche in indie circles as a consummate purveyor of solemn and intense lo-fi torch songs and … [Read more...] about Angel Olsen: All Mirrors – Review
Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – Review
Mark Ronson returns with another hook-laden, guest-heavy opus, this time chronicling the fall-out of heartbreak and divorce via a sleekly produced set of sad bangers. The forty-three-year-old producer, DJ and musician Mark Ronson returns to his proven formula of a cluster of buzzy guest vocalists for his fifth album, a break-up record (his marriage to Josephine de La Baume … [Read more...] about Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – Review