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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024
Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age
She’s turned it into an intense and stately piece of chamber music – almost baroque in places – and a much more melancholic sonic exploration of the natural world, most of it centred on Marysia Osu’s florid harp flourishes and Emma Barnaby’s cello drones. There is something almost wilfully formless and chaotic about this album, in which the Los Angeles-based percussionist draws together a diverse group of collaborators from wildly different areas of the LA musical world – André 3000, Sam Gendel, Nate Mercereau, Laraaji, Surya Botofasina, Adam Rudolph, Photay – and accompanies them in various ad hoc configurations. On her second album, this London-based Belgian musician switches between pedal harp, piano and synths throughout a dreamy, 10-part suite, featuring top UK jazz performers including Nubya Garcia, James Mollison, Sheila Maurice-Grey and Lyle Barton.
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