Kevin Körber

17 hours ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

As the reputation of TV on the Radio has grown over the years, their prolonged period of silence remains baffling. While the group have finally returned to the stage, the prospect of new music seems increasingly grim, the band seemingly content to revisit their early years with the knowledge that their legacy is secure. Yet, to refer to lead singer Tunde Adebimpe as someone resting on one’s laurels would be an error, as evidenced by Thee Black Boltz, his first musical project outside of the band.

2 days ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

Perhaps no artist’s relative success in the heady days of 2000s indie rock came as far out of left field as Dirty Projectors. While the group rightfully turned heads in 2009 with Bitte Orca and the stone classic “Stillness is the Move,” the band’s past was rooted in far stranger places. Prior to their success, Dirty Projectors was largely just whatever composer David Longstreth was working on, be it a concept album about Don Henley or a re-interpretation of a Black Flag album from memory.

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

Typically, people associate folk music with words to the extent that its practitioners are often praised for their skills as writers more than as musicians. They become poets, composers of verse for whom the musical accompaniment feels almost incidental. Emily Sprague exists in opposition to this common dichotomy.

3 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

The only consistent element of Destroyer is the quality of their output. Frontperson Dan Bejar can always be counted on to come up with something fascinating on each new release, but it’s what that fascinating thing sounds like that shifts from project to project. While there has been a consistent, sophisti-pop throughline to follow since 2011’s Kaputt, even boiling Bejar’s approach down to this feels reductive, ignoring how his method and subjects morph between albums.

4 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Kevin Korber |Kevin Körber

Even within the realm of music, Brian Eno has always viewed himself as an artist who works across disciplines. We’ve seen how that has manifested through the many compositions he has contributed to art installations and film soundtracks (both real and conceptual). Rams takes this to an interesting place: in 2018, Eno composed the soundtrack to a documentary on German designer Dieter Rams, a man whose work in designing consumer goods has shaped how people experience the world.