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The 10 best global albums of 2024
DJ Love celebrated car horns, Kenyan metalhead Lord Spikeheart traversed trap and doom, while 82-year-old Milton Nascimento joined forces with Esperanza Spalding
Lusciously embellished versions of Hindu spirituals Prema Muditha and Om Namah Shivaya enhance the clarity of her keening lines, while a four-part reimagining of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme suite harnesses the power of communal harmony to touch something deeper than song. At their best when they sing full-throated and freeform without lyrics, Rainey and Jennings blaze brightly amid the ambient melodics and dulcimer strings of opener Franklin Warrior, as well as interweaving syncopated vocalisations over the thunderous kick drums of SGC, pushing each other into a cacophony of soulful self-expression. The debut solo album from Kenyan metalhead Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, is a relentless listening experience comprising 13 quickfire tracks that weld shuddering trap rhythms to industrial techno, sludge metal and doom.
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