The Best Albums of 2021
Featuring Little Simz, Sufjan Stevens and Kanye West, KEYMAG counts down the albums that defined the year.
Flynn Wallen: "Things Always Come 360"
Coinciding with the release of his debut EP, KEYMAG takes a look at an archival interview with the Peterborough soul-rap artist.
The Best Albums of 2020
Featuring Moses Sumney, Charli XCX and Caribou, KEYMAG counts down the albums that defined the year.
The Best Songs of 2020
Featuring Childish Gambino, HAIM and SG Lewis, KEYMAG counts down the songs that defined the year.
The Y2K Afrofuturism Bug
A guidebook to an alternative viewpoint for sci-fi, via a hip-hop album that blasts off into space, and a techno record plunged into the deep blue.
The Koreatown Oddity: "My Time Has Arrived"
The LA rapper is marching to the beat of his own, very obtuse drum, without ever letting slip that there is still a craft to what he does.
Modern Mavens: Pharrell Williams
With the Neptunes and on his lonesome, Pharrell changed the game with a strong foundation in neo-soul, a rebelliously playful conviction and an adamant liking towards minimalism.
Summer 2020: 10 Albums to Spend the Summer With
A random assortment of records to define your summer by this year.
Take A Byte Out: DJ Shadow, the Avalanches and the History of Plunderphonics
KEYMAG takes a look into the technique of plunderphonics and two of its greatest accompishments, from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing to the Avalanches' Since I Left You.
Diminutive Arthur
Off the back of the release of his debut EP, “These Days”, hip-hop artist Diminutive Arthur talks to KEYMAG about how this work came together.
Collectivised: A Look into Music's Greatest Collectives
A brief insight into a pick of the greatest musical collectives to ever be devised.
The Story of The Grey Album
Dangermouse’s collage-like masterpiece spawned a hugely-successful career, as well as a fascinating story of the industry outlawing of a sample fanatic.