One word often used to describe Tedeschi Trucks Band over the group’s 15-year existence is retro, which makes the title of their sixth album, Future Soul, an ironic departure. Musically, Future Soul doesn’t remake the band’s gumbo of classic rock, blues, soul and jazz into something futuristic, but it does reposition Tedeschi Trucks Band as […]
At their core, Altin Gün are the ultimate modern fusion band—not in the Miles Davis sense, but by the very literal definition. Emerging from Amsterdam, the Dutch-Turkish quintet specializes in a sublime form of psychedelia, revitalizing traditional Anatolian music as they spiderweb out into prog, disco, funk, and synth-pop. And for their first eight years, […]
Over the last decade, Mumford & Sons have slowly dismantled the “banjo-core” architecture that once defined them, and Prizefighter, their sixth full-length studio album, may represent the final blow in that transformation. Recorded primarily at producer Aaron Dressner’s Long Pond Studios, the new record—their second in just seven months—finds the band fully drawn into the […]
