Since his previous album Sirens, Nicolas Jaar has been particularly concerned with how electronic music can reflect his anxieties about the geopolitical future of the world. Cenizas appears to very much be a continuation of that exploration. It isn't bleak, but it is certainly concerned.

Great ambient albums don’t sit in the background, but are instead unforgettable. Be it Music For Airports, or Disintegration Loops, or The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, they’re all hugely memorable. The same is true for Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase, by The Soft Pink Truth, the pseudonym of Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos.

The murder of George Floyd isn’t just an American issue, but a global one. RTJ4, Run the Jewel’s fourth album, is a hip-hop album made for this particular moment in history.

An article about great Jamaican music: a bit of ska, rocksteady, and dancehall. Equiknoxx’s Bird Sound Power is eccentric post-dancehall.

A curated collection of chill indie music in the Nepali language from Nepal and India.

First Flight borrows a lot of its vocabulary from the sentence-as-name post-rock bands of the early-to-mid-2000’s, such as We Lost The Sea and Explosions In The Sky. I remember a lot of the music from that scene being no-nonsense, tightly-played instrumental rock. I’d describe this album as just that, taut Indian post-rock.

I was a washed-up hostel-dweller during chillwave’s brief and wondrous life. I can’t imagine a better mental space to enjoy Washed Out's Within and Without, the archetypical album of the genre. I’d like to listen to this while sheltered under a blue umbrella on a white-sand beach that is neither too hot nor too cold, just temperate.

The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld is a classic of ambient house and electronica, it feels like floating through space with headphones on — tuned to the frequency of some alien radio station playing music from their home planet that mimics music inspired by human electronic music.

An ongoing series of stories about an ongoing love affair with punk music and its offshoots, including alternative rock, post-punk, melodic hardcore, pop-punk, post-hardcore.

At the start of the covid crisis, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. This dispatch includes a playlist of punk music and its several offshoots: post-punk, pop-punk, hardcore, post-hardcore & new wave.

At the start of the covid crisis, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. This dispatch includes a playlist of South Asian music, including Bollywood music, Indian and Pakistani pop, rock, and indie music.

At the start of the covid crisis, which, for many people, started at the helm of other crises, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. These include songs, stories, writings, movies, et al. The first dispatch is a playlist and a colour that I really like.

My list of the best music from 2019. A mix of hip-hop, electronic, punk, metal, Indian indie, rock, etc.