Posts TaggedBlight Records

Abdul Hakim Bilal’s Dreams of Coming Home

Abdul Hakim Bilal’s new album, Silene Undulata, expands the songwriter’s scope into new sonic zones. Combining drones and ethereal experimentations with more focused song structures, these seven tracks are an immovable force, a cathartic reflection. Bilal explains, “This album is purely Black music—always on the edge, and always intense to a white audience. This is […]

Track Premiere: Luna Honey “Smirk”

Walking sharp edges back from the brink becomes a finely-tuned machine on the volatile catharsis of Luna Honey’s “Smirk.” Lead songwriter Maura Pond rains fire across the solid concrete sonic foundations, buoyed by Kamyar Arsani’s explosive daf rhythms. Pond’s voice glows like a specter pulling the strings of this angular puppet show, hanging above the […]