Ben Frost: Aurora

A bounty of album drops in the music we tweeted this week

Australian-born, Reykjavík-based film composer and producer Ben Frost has released a highly anticipated fifth solo album called A U R O R A, which delivers an intense 40 minutes of experimental electronic sounds that reflect both his musical talents and time spent being mentored by Brian Eno. But most of all the album channels Frost’s time in the DR Congo with photographer Richard Mosse, for …

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A bounty of album drops in the music we tweeted this week

Neil Young: A Letter Home As the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis points out, it’s odd that Neil Young—creator of the ultra-high resolution music player Pono—would release an album like A Letter Home—a crackling, distorted, “retro-tech” LP recorded in a phone booth at Jack White’s Third Man Studios. For Young, it’s all about capturing not just the vocals and instruments, but also the environment in which it …

Zeid Hamdan: Balekeh (Acoustic)

Unique and rare sounds from the Middle East in a look at the creative publication's current music issue

Hailing from Mauritania, Noura Mint Seymali’s “Tzenni” (the Hassaniya Arabic word meaning “to turn” or “to spin”) is immediately intriguing and alluring. The song quickly morphs into fusion of traditional Moorish griot music, Western pop, blues, even psych-rock—aided by the guitar stylings of her husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly. Seymali (who began her career at the tender age of 13, as a back-up singer for her …