South African Rhythms Meet Gabonese Flair in This Cross-Continental Musical Conversation "241 (Amapiano Version)" After the success of "MBOLO," Bayko & Les OG are back with something that takes familiar parts and makes them sound completely new. "241 (Amapiano Version)" is a great example of how music from different cultures can blend together perfectly, with South African Amapiano's unique rhythmic rhythms meeting afro-pop's lyrical tastes. The music...

She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...