Music Recommendations
This is the music we’re listening to right now, tracks and artists on repeat, recent finds, and longtime favourites that reflect what’s been in our rotation lately.
Inferno is the long-awaited fifth studio album by Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada, released on 29 May 2026 via Warp Records. Marking their first full-length album in 13 years following 2013's Tomorrow’s Harvest, the 18-track record delivers an immersive 70-minute sonic journey that transitions between airy, nostalgic melodies and heavily distorted, industrial trip-hop atmospheres. Heavily themed around biblical imagery, spirituality, and existential dread, the album stands out for its prominent use of voice sampling on standout tracks like "Father and Son" and "The Word Becomes Flesh"—the latter of which serves as the end credits music for the A24 film Backrooms. It has been widely praised by critics as one of the duo's darkest, most experimental, and complexly produced records to date.
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco is a groundbreaking 1959 live jazz album recorded at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. Produced by Orrin Keepnews for Riverside Records, the performance captured alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley right after his departure from Miles Davis's band. Fronting a stellar quintet that featured his brother Nat Adderley on cornet and Bobby Timmons on piano, the recording effectively launched the "soul jazz" subgenre by bridging the gap between bebop, gospel roots, and blues-drenched grooves. It revolutionized modern live recording techniques by keeping the ambient crowd noise, clinking glasses, and Adderley’s charismatic, soulful spoken introductions intact. Fueled by the massive success of Timmons's hit composition "This Here" (colloquially introduced as "Dis Here"), the album became a massive bestseller and remains an essential landmark in jazz history.