Posts by Paula Mejía

Nascuy Linares on building the sparse, transportive score for Embrace of the Serpent

For Ciro Guerra’s ‘Embrace of the Serpent’, composer Nascuy Linares set aside the orchestral conventions that had defined his work in favour of minimalist textures, Indigenous field recordings, and the sounds of the Amazon rainforest itself.

Thundercat: The Long Game

As he gears up for his next act, Thundercat is channelling the wisdom gleaned from his friend Mac Miller and his beloved boxing regime to stop forcing it and trust the process.

Lucrecia Dalt: “I’m not fearing genre. I’m not fearing a lot”

After a health scare forced Lucrecia Dalt to reassess her usually high-velocity life, the experimental composer discovered both obsession and creative liberation in the stillness making her new album, ‘A Danger to Ourselves’.

Noname: Speaking Truth

Since releasing ‘Sundial’ in 2023, Noname has poured her energy into two projects that reflect the spirit of her political views: Noname Book Club and Radical Hood Library. With these outlets for her values, her music is swapping theory for something more human.

070 Shake: Don’t Look Down

070 Shake’s moody, uncontainable sound has quietly left fingerprints across contemporary pop’s landscape. Now, with her adventurous new album and a carefully managed relationship with growing media glare, she’s ready to let in the light.

Tracing Silent Servant’s Latin influences, a driving force of his sound

Alongside EBM, post-punk and techno, it was the drama of his cultural surroundings that made the late artist’s music so emotionally rich