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  • Annual Report 2023: The Top 25 Tracks of 2023

  • Annual Report 2023: The Top 50 Albums of the Year

  • Cover story: Anohni, the truth-teller

  • Annual Report 2023: In full

  • Blonde Redhead are sourcing strength from the shadows

  • Gazelle Twin on the connection between ghosts, technology and women’s rights

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The Top 25 Tracks of 2023

The best songs of 2023, according to Crack Magazine. Featuring Jorja Smith, NewJeans, SofTT, Overmono, Mitski and more

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London’s V&A East announces debut exhibition, The Music Is Black: A British Story

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The Warehouse Project announces New Year’s Eve 2023 line-up

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Autechre, Aunty Rayzor and Slauson Malone 1 announced for Rewire 2024

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Construction Festival returns to Dnipro next weekend

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CMAT, Eddington Again and Dame Area join line-up for ESNS24

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Oneohtrix Point Never, Shygirl and Sevdaliza confirmed for Sónar Lisboa 2024

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DJ Rashad’s Double Cup reissued for 10th anniversary

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MIRRORS Festival adds Lucinda Chua, Iceboy Violet and Florence Sinclair to line-up

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C2C Festival reveals full programme for 2023

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Manchester’s Band on the Wall releases autumn and winter line-up

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FKA twigs says “no new music” after revealing 85 demos were leaked in a hack

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KI/KI, Max Cooper and more to host Dolby Atmos listening event at ADE

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Crack Mix 500

Crack’s flagship mix series celebrates its 500th instalment with a Block9 takeover. Venture in for archive mixes from the Glastonbury fields from GIDEÖN, Neneh Cherry, Masters and Work and more

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Crack Magazine’s Festival Guide 2023

An ongoing, regularly-updated directory of festivals and events taking place around the world this year, in 2023 – handpicked by Crack Magazine

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⌘R: The Best New Music, curated by Crack Magazine

A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine

  • list article

The Top 25 Tracks of 2023

The best songs of 2023, according to Crack Magazine. Featuring Jorja Smith, NewJeans, SofTT, Overmono, Mitski and more

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Ruth Mascelli

Special Interest’s Ruth Mascelli comes through with a “mix that gestures towards the dancefloor” balancing “full frontal embodiment music with an undercurrent of seasick ambient”

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Kamal. curates an emotive playlist themed around “the loneliness of the youth of today”

Featuring King Krule, Mitski, Mica Levi, Leon Vynehall and more, the Dave-collaborator provides a range of tracks that evoke “either a sense of existentialism, loneliness, or melancholia”

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The Top 50 Albums of 2023

The albums that captured the many moods of 2023, starring Troye Sivan, Klein, Kara Jackson, Lankum, Laurel Halo and more. Our top 50 albums of the year

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Crack Magazine’s Annual Report 2023

Our breakdown of the year in music, featuring the best tracks and albums, Christmas gifts and staff picks, mixes and more

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Sunday Mix: Vagabon

Vagabon a.k.a. Laetitia Tamko presents an upbeat, uptempo collection of sounds and songs that give her pep and vigour on unhurried days

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Album Reviews

Shabazz Palaces
Robed in Rareness
Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Kylie
Tension
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The Ones Ahead
Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross
Amaarae
Fountain Baby
Bar Italia
Tracey Denim
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Yaeji
With a Hammer
μ-Ziq
1977
boygenius
the record
Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
100 gecs
10,000 gecs
Fever Ray
Radical Romantics
Kelela
Raven
Various Artists
A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back
Special Interest
Endure
Theo Parrish
DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward
Shygirl
Nymph
Slipknot
The End, So Far
The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin
Ali
Rina Sawayama
Hold the Girl
Crack Cloud
Tough Baby
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Listen to a playlist of Spirit Of The Beehive’s current favourite tracks

The Philadelphia trio curates an eclectic playlist of some of their favourite tunes at the moment, featuring George Michael, Giant Swan, The Prodigy, Caribou and Oneohtrix Point Never

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Jennifer Cardini

Every bit of bright and vibrant as its accompanying artwork, this recording from scene staple Jennifer Cardini harnesses the energy of festival season and transports it direct to your speakers

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: E-Saggila

Recorded live at MUTEK Montréal, this mix offers a tantalising sneak peek of new material from the Iraq-born, Toronto-based DJ and producer

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Close listening and thoughtful curation: Highlights from Semibreve 2023

The Portuguese electronic music and digital arts festival recently returned to Braga for 13th edition. Check out our rundown of standout shows, featuring Loraine James, Maya Shenfeld and more

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Cue Points: Krust

For Cue Points, Krust breaks down five personal favourites from a handful of fellow drum’n’bass and jungle innovators and considers their impact – within a DJ set, and wider dance music culture

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Issue 149 Mix: Bored Lord

Following the release of ‘Name It!’, the Oakland-based DJ and producer’s new album for T4T LUV NRG, Bored Lord’s mix – which accompanies our Issue 149 feature with her – is a love letter to the music that makes her the artist she is

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Bored Lord’s focusing on the ravers, not the room

Bored Lord is the heir apparent of ecstatic, DIY bass music, whose deployment of a pop sample is matched only by her voracious work rate. Chal Ravens learns more about Oakland-based DJ and producer, and her latest album, for Issue 149

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Marla Kether

For today’s Crack Mix, bassist, DJ and producer Marla Kether has put together “a bass-led blend of gqom, Afro house, techno and kuduro” also featuring some of her own tracks – from her recent debut EP ‘All That We Have’ – plus some unreleased reworks

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Unsound 2023: Standout moments from the Kraków avant-garde celebration

A selection of highlights from the 2023 edition of Unsound, featuring VTSS b2b Sherelle, k means, Dreamcrusher and 33EMYBW

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Rarelyalways and Joshua Idehen on performance, personal growth and the power of language

Multidisciplinary artists Rarelyalways and Joshua Idehen discuss work-life balance, the future of jazz, identity and overcoming creative roadblocks for our artist conversation series

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Rising: Honour is pressing forward, looking back

The elusive Chicago-via-London artist and PAN signee chats with Seb Wheeler about his beloved late grandmother and the process behind his emotive, meticulously crafted compositions

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Live from Nature Loves Courage: Abyss X

Abyss X beams in live from Nature Loves Courage, the mystic-inspired festival she founded on the southwest coast of Crete. Listen back to a recording of her playful, dusky set from this year’s edition

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In Photos: Nuits Sonores Brussels 2023

The 6th edition of the Nuits Sonores and European Lab’s Brussels event took place from 12 to 15 October 2023

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Britney Spears’ In The Zone marked the discovery of the pop icon’s creative identity

‘In the Zone’ represents the death of pre-millennium innocence – both in terms of Britney’s branding, as she evolved from teen idol to cultural icon, and in a musical sense

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Sunday Mix: Cosha

The Irish singer-songwriter and producer turns in a smooth mix of songs that resonated during a period of change and heartbreak, with emotive vocal performances, calming instrumentals and romantically-charged lyrics inside

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Original Source: Miso Extra is bringing her imagination to life

Through her fictional Misoverse, Miso Extra is drawing from her British and Japanese heritage to create a rich blend of rap, R&B and pop

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TraTraTrax: Keep It Moving

TraTraTrax has taken the global underground by storm. The Colombian label is leading a Latin American dance movement where diasporic traditions merge with UK bass and techno. But with recognition often comes tokenisation – and they’re resisting

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Issue 149 Cover Mix: TraTraTrax Sound Sistema (Verraco, DJ Lomalinda & Nyksan)

Running alongside our November issue cover story, this cover mix is a deep, near-three hour rhythmic odyssey through destabilising techno, murky bass music, guaracha, dubstep and much more

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