#The 50 best albums of 2024

#The 50 best albums of 2024

The 50 best albums of 2024 From Brat to Bird’s Eye and Cold Visions to Queridão, these are the albums we couldn’t ignore this year. By Alex Robert Ross, Cady Siregar, Jordan Darville, Raphael Helfand, Steffanee Wang, Wale Oloworekende, Shaad D’Souza, Lucas Villa, Colin Joyce, Emma Madden, Vivian Medithi, David Renshaw, Walden Green Every album…

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#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below. Kendrick…

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#Yasmin Williams escapes tradition

#Yasmin Williams escapes tradition

On her third album, Acadia, the guitarist and composer pushes even further beyond folk conventions, incorporating jazz, bluegrass, and ambient music. Yasmin Williams   Ebru Yildiz Around a minute into “Dawning,” at the end of a solo acoustic guitar introduction that rises and rests at its own calm pace, Yasmin Williams pauses to let a…

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#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

The Portuguese guitarist and soft-noise auteur brought the unassuming yet gorgeously complex sounds of his latest album, Spectral Revolution, to UNSOUND this week. Rafael Toral. Photo by Vera Marmelo.   Rafael Toral’s 30-year career as a solo recording artist is a story of perpetual growth — a more fluid line than most experimentalists take toward…

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#Chrystabell is the dreamer

#Chrystabell is the dreamer

Chrystabell is the dreamer The singer, actor, and longtime David Lynch collaborator discusses the astral mind meld that inspired the duo’s new album, Cellophane Memories. By Raphael Helfand Chrystabell. Photo by Candice Ghai.   By the time 19-year-old singer Chrysta Bell Zucht met director David Lynch at the turn of the millennium, she’d already experienced…

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#Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink

#Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink

Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink The Chicago artist discusses musical meta-narratives, past and present pets, and how her chaotic new album Breeze relates to her peaceful new life in the ’burbs. By Raphael Helfand Angel Marcloid (Fire-Toolz). Photo by Bethany Puterbaugh.   Angel Marcloid has built a studio in her own image….

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#Discover Blogly: Listen to new projects from Lila Ehjä, DJ Kolt, and more

#Discover Blogly: Listen to new projects from Lila Ehjä, DJ Kolt, and more

Grunge-tinged coldwave, a triumphant batida farewell, and alternative ambient can be heard on the hidden gems we can’t stop listening to. Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Lila Ehjä, Clivota Clivota by Lila Ehjä Lila Ehjä is a Parisian “one-girl-band” who makes experimental, gothic coldwave appropriate for soundtracking…

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