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S. Fidelity does not create tracks for a particular purpose, but spaces for particular states. On I Guess I’ll Never Learn, he condenses R’n’B, soul and hip-hop into a hovering intimacy. Fittingly, he has also recorded an exclusive mix for us.
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Record Store Day. More than 700 releases. Which means separating the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, there is an unbending music editorial team willing to take on exactly that task. Here are the highlights of RSD 2026: otherworldly, chaotic, forceful – and full of rarities.
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Raw post-punk drowned out delicate dream-pop. At Berlin’s Silent Green, Maria Somerville presented a darker version of her musical palette – shaped by the same atmospheric ideas, but rendered here as a palpably physical form of envelopment.
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Elisabeth Klinck unlearns to remember differently. The Brussels electroacoustic scene has found an idiosyncratic voice in her. Her music consists of body, breath and space. Composition as a space in which the mind falls silent. She has selected ten records that currently accompany her.
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Post-punk meets pop, anger meets melody. Die Nerven sound more accessible than they once did, yet lose none of their vehemence. Why does this suspended state between noise and beauty resonate so strongly? At their concert in Erlangen, it became possible to observe.
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Tanks, wallpaper and a regime that effectively prohibited almost everything: conditions in the GDR were far from conducive to the free development of an art form. Perhaps it was precisely for that reason that a distinct strain of soul music took shape here.
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